Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Obviously there were some people in Washington who thought that Mrs. Ross should have stopped making pants for the Army long ago; now it was possible-under the stern Eisenhower code forbidding even the appearance of conflict of interest-that she may have made the pants too long...
...Budapest, Khrushchev set a hard line: only those workers, peasants and intellectuals loyal to the regime were entitled to any freedom; a promise of religious freedom was hedged by a demand that the church preserve a "loyal" attitude; "stern punishment" was threatened to "the counter revolutionaries"; "certain unemployment" would have to be faced; "various public figures and nonpartisan experts" would be consulted, but no minority party would be tolerated in Hungary; ousted Premier Imre Nagy was denounced as a traitor...
Cross in Blood. Particularly in the Díaz version, the story has the nature of a dream landscape described by someone who had all his senses about him. Its quality is indicated in passages as stern and unsentimental as a death sentence: "We dressed our wounds with grease of a fat Indian we had killed, for we had no oil, and had a good supper on some of the dogs they breed to eat. The houses were deserted and the food had been carried off ... but during the night [the dogs] returned to their houses and we snatched them...
...dazed eyes of Hungarian refugees in Andau. a small Austrian border town east of Vienna, the awful majesty of the United States of America was seen in the face of a bureaucrat. It was a stern face, a doubting face, and behind it lay the answer as to whether each particular refugee could find haven in the U.S. The tired, dazed refugee could hardly be expected to notice that it was also a red-eyed face, a face sagging with weariness in a round-the-clock humanitarian effort. From their Communist masters, the Hungarians had heard much about the face...
...found God in a harsh desert. Deliberate, also, are the Old Testament characters, made to look like medieval ghetto figures, and the animals that might have been drawn by cave dwellers to illustrate a great saga. These powerful, often dreamily tortuous drawings are full of the awe, the stern morality in which their origins were themselves steeped...