Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Years later, after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law, Kirbo became one of the courtroom stars himself. Now he was the celebrated trial attorney playing to audiences hanging from the rafters. A gentle man with an understated, rustic style, Kirbo developed a reputation for becoming stern with witnesses who he thought were lying; his audiences looked for such moments. He defended blacks and whites alike, and he emphasized to the juries the need to be fair. Like his boyhood models, he studied his witnesses and jurors closely, searching for any clue that might aid his case...
After Frederick's death, George's mother, the domineering Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, took on the full responsibility for his upbringing. She gave him her own self-righteousness and kept him away from other boys, who she felt might corrupt him. Princess Augusta was equally stern with George's four brothers. Seeing the young Duke of Gloucester in an unhappy mood one day, she sharply asked why he was so silent. "I am thinking," he told her. "Thinking, Sir! And of what?" she demanded. "I am thinking," he replied, "that if ever I have...
...stern effort to halt violence that has been causing a death a day in Jamaica, Manley's government took the extreme step of declaring a state of emergency. This move gives the Jamaican Security Force broad and tough powers to maintain law and order. Said the Prime Minister: "We have witnessed a type and scale of violence unique in our history, terrorist activities previously unknown to us which have caused fear and concern to every decent Jamaican citizen." Security forces, he insisted, had found evidence that terrorism was to be deliberately stepped up this week...
...Eanes becomes President, it will be less because the voters like him than because they fear the alternatives. A stern, aloof, ramrod-stiff disciplinarian, Eanes served in all three of Portugal's former African territories, joined the 1973 so-called "captains' revolt" against Lisbon's effort to contain the black struggle for independence, and actively supported Spinola at the time of the April revolution. Eanes is credited with lancing the rebellion last November that nearly led to a leftist dictatorship...
...must get rid of flabbiness in body and mind and be strong in every way." She deplored the fact that women in India, by and large, "have no personality of their own and exist merely to serve the whims of men." Then she turned to the government's stern family planning policy, which aims at reducing the country's growth rate from over 2% to 1.4% by 1980. Among her recommendations: providing a strong program of incentives and "disincentives," raising the legal marriage age from 15 to 18 for girls and from 18 to 21 for young...