Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...
Result: on June 17 Iceland will formally become a republic. Almost certain to be the first president: bulky, stern-faced, U.S.-minded Sveinn Björnsson, 63, the island's regent since...
...given the word to the conquered to rise up and smite their oppressor: that word probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...
Unfavorable. Regardless of these advantages, General Alexander's polyglot troops faced the stern necessity of climbing mountains over land mines, through entrenched machine-gun fire, delivered by crack, desperately determined troops. For this stern task Alexander drew upon the men who in the final analysis must win all wars: the infantry...
...Canada's plant across the river at Windsor, Ont.) was having more than foreman trouble. About 22,000 of the area's U.A.W.-C.I.O. workers, disgruntled for a wide variety of reasons, walked out. Union officials pleaded with the wildcat strikers, cajoled, threatened to resign. WLB sent stern back-to-work orders. Most of Detroit's strikers gave in. But at week's end the score stood: 17,500 workers still out, three plants shut down...