Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Republicans voted against it: Oregon's Wayne Morse, Nevada's George Malone, North Dakota's William Langer. Senator Ives, who had forced Taft into a liberalization of a number of measures, went along in the end. So did Joe Ball, who had fought for a sterner bill but was not too displeased over the outcome. The vote, if it held, would be enough to override a presidential veto...
Ambition, academic or otherwise, must he made of sterner stuff than the average American male, the sociology fears. Excessive drive and will-in-win, even if it's only for a B-minus, can cost today's Horatto Alger 10 to 15 years of his life under modern tension...
...Evesham on the River Avon, a respectable British workhorse named Smokey who had long frightened picnickers by stealing and eating their sandwiches also took on sterner ways. A mild-looking animal who pulls the town's garbage wagon from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (with a half-hour break for lunch), Smokey indulged his passion for sandwiches only on Sundays and holidays when he was free to roam on the riverbank; once when a cautious lady picnicker hid her lunch under a coat, Smokey ate both lunch and coat...
...Commander in Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz.-Pearl Harbor, which happened on a Sunday, meant a complete recasting and re-writing of the "front-of-the-book." It also meant the removal of Walt Disney's little elephant Dumbo from the forthcoming Christmas cover. Dumbo was replaced by the sterner visage of General Douglas MacArthur...
...that evening, as the Sacred Cow bounced through dirty weather over West Virginia to a landing at the National Airport, the President braced himself for a sterner audience: the G.O.P.-controlled Soth Congress...