Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine hours of attention and excitement--all without fear of disciplinary action. Oh sure, they might receive a stern look or a hollow warning, but nothing incriminating will mar their permanent records. With protesting made so easy and so safe, it's not surprising that sit-ins have become about as commonplace as faculty luncheons at the modern university...
...bustles behind the scenes too. She leads a group prayer before each concert; she bastes the broken hearts of her staff. Like many strong actress-singers, Madonna has a fervent gay following, and most of her dancers are gay. To them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody. The crew is her moody brood, and she is Mama Madonna, single parent...
...converted to her faith. He later recalled his feelings after formally being received into the church: "There was no joy in it at all, only a somber apprehension." Greene never took his religion lightly, and the Catholicism that would come to stamp his fiction served both as a stern gauge by which to measure the behavior of fallen mortals and as a powerful source of divine mercy...
Crimson reporters traversed the building in search of the committee's meeting and located it in the Back Bay room. To avoid suspicion, they quickly left the floor. But by the time one intrepid journalist used a stairwell to return to the hallway adjacent to the conference room, a stern man with folded arms and wearing a black suit had been posted outside the meeting. The reporter evaded the guard's queries, but to no avail. In the hotel lobby, an employee dressed in a pristine uniform approached the journalist and asked him if he was a guest...
...Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she proved to be the best witness for her defense. Articulate and direct, Glaspie insisted that Iraq had "maliciously" edited the transcript "to the point of inaccuracy." A "great deal" in the Iraqi record was accurate, she conceded, but her stern warnings that the U.S. would not tolerate the use of force against Kuwait had been deleted. She said she described those warnings in a confidential cable she sent to the State Department immediately after the meeting. If U.S. officials had made a mistake in dealing with Saddam, she contended...