Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper to a conversation she thinks silly: "Well, how dull...
...tough fight on his hands. To a convention of his United Party in Bloemfontein, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts denounced the Broederbond (League of Brothers) as a "dangerous, cunning, Fascist organization." Smuts ordered South African civil servants and state schoolteachers to resign Broederbond membership at once. His stern alternative: resign their Government jobs...
Jesse Jones, it was now clear, could not be brushed off without a real White House struggle. Franklin Roosevelt, the gossips insisted, had returned to Washington after the election in a tough frame of mind. Determined to fire several subordinates, the President's suddenly stern eye fastened on Jesse Jones. At the first postelection Cabinet meeting, Mr. Roosevelt politely asked Jesse if he had any matters to bring up. Jesse did, and promptly began to rattle them off. While he was still reciting, it was said, Franklin Roosevelt blandly addressed the next man at the table. By the time...
Through China's stern censorship came hints that something had been done to hearten the faltering defense army. Some reports indicated that troops from the northwest, where they had long been inactive, watching over the Chinese Communists, had been transferred south and thrown against the invaders. A British report went even further, suggested that Communist troops themselves had been brought down and put into battle. But these were rumors only...
...Soong now holds China's No. 2 post. All Asia knows him as "T.V." -the initials that stand for Tse-Veng (Scholarly Son), the name given him by his stern Methodist father. All Asia knows him, too, as one of the Far East's big, progressive-minded, dynamic statesmen...