Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders began to click out of the Pentagon: salute and discipline will be smartly observed; no flight clothing will be worn away from air bases; dangerously low flying and stunting are strictly prohibited. Vandenberg also took a hand in designing the new Air Force blue uniforms-and issued stern orders on the width of trousers, length of tunics and kinds of shoes to be worn. When an Air Force bulletin advised the use of suspenders instead of belts, airmen at Wright Field dubbed him "old braces for britches." In November 1950, when Vandenberg saw that even his senior officers were...
...routine of daily shelling, went to general quarters. Earsplitting salvos reverberated all morning and afternoon as the Saint Paul's 5-and 8-in. guns plastered Communist shore installations. The blast came at 3:55 p.m. Suddenly the cruiser lurched like a hooked marlin, rattling from stem to stern. Not enemy action but a gunpowder fire of undetermined origin had set off a blast in one of the Saint Paul's forward eight-inch turrets. Damage-control teams pulled 30 bodies out of the steeled compartment while poisonous powder flames were still swirling. For two hours, while...
Before it could establish a proper moral base, the NATO peacetime coalition had to face in Europe "the false but glittering doctrine of neutralism ... an intellectual defeatism, in some quarters bordering upon despair . . ." There were other obstacles. But "the effect of the negative factors was largely canceled by a stern fact which denied refutation: the job had to be done...
...Christman: "Well, let me put it this way.Which of the group, when he was the one who came out with the mainpress or quazer for the veterans who were back-stern for the other group?" First Man: "Well, which was that? Which one had that much pull that he was able to do that? Eisenhower?" Christman: "He said that if the people will back me for the mainstrem of the adafist to grawmore rights of all veterans or civilians, then I'll stand behind it. I think it's grand to come out and make a statement like...
...whole educational system. Paternalism is the crime the Yale administration is charged with, and there is a good bit of truth to the accusations. In the past year, the Dean's office at Yale has sent personal letters to all students warning them not to cheat, has like a stern parent snatched the pleasant tradition of Derby Day away from them, has compelled them to attend classes, and has scolded them for slouching and smoking in class...