Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer directing Exercise Delawar, General Paul DeWitt Adams, 57, is reputed to be the roughest, most hard-nosed American commander since General George S. Patton. Subordinates look into his leathery face, freeze before his cold stare and stern lips, dub him "Old Stoneface." The most combat-experienced commander on active duty, Adams expresses his military credo succinctly. Says he: "The man who creates the most violence in a military situation is the one who will...
Most Christians have always defended the necessity of baptism for salvation, relying on Jesus' words in St. John's Gospel: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
...Great Treasury Raid, Stern...
...three months he has pruned the government payroll, has cleared the streets of student rowdies with stern warnings that he would have terrorists shot on the spot...
...Ultimatum. Now enter W. (for Willie) Haydon Burns, 52, six-time mayor of Jacksonville and currently a candidate for Florida's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, who went on local television to deliver a stern ultimatum. "There will be no more demonstrations like last week," he declared. "They will not be tolerated." At the same time, in his capacity as police and fire commissioner, Burns deputized Jacksonville's 496 firemen as special police...