Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Administration narrowly managed to extend Ex-Im's power to extend arms loans for another five years, it will face an even sterner challenge this week when the President's foreign aid bill reaches the Senate. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has trimmed $736 million from Johnson's requests-including the Defense Department's $383 million revolving fund for arms loans to poorer countries...
...Viet Nam, Johnson neither apologized for U.S. conduct of the war nor attempted to prettify the prospects. Despite heavy pressures for a sterner stance from military and congressional advisers, the President announced no new strategies and no new commitments. "I wish I could report to you that the conflict is almost over," he said somberly. "This I cannot do. We face more cost, more loss and ``more agony...
...undefeated Cantabs had averaged more points per game (36.3), more yards rushing (346), and more on total offense (442.3) than any major team in the nation. The opposition (Lafayette, Tufts, Columbia) was admittedly weak, and last week's opponent, undefeated Cornell, was supposed to provide a sterner test. Harvard slaughtered Cornell 21-0, to keep the glory dream going-at least for another week...
...company's huge cutting and welding facilities, they were met with scorn. "We start work at 6:45 a.m.," the factory hands pointedly declared, fully expecting them to saunter in each day at noon. But German Sculptress Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff and her husband, Martin Matschinsky, are made of sterner stuff. Up each day at 5 o'clock, they continued working long after everyone else had gone home. Six months later, the commission-a 16-ft. stainless-steel sculpture-was completed. The workers gave the artists their highest accolade, offered to take them on as professional welders...
...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are in an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...