Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enervating heat compounded by the hot dustbowl winds that strafe the course make Southern Hills an even sterner test of stamina. The course must be watered in the middle of the tournament and on a single hot day will soak up 400,000 gallons of water...
Readers of The Life and Times may find themselves hooked on Chaucer. For those who do, Gardner has thoughtfully and simultaneously provided a sterner volume of criticism: The Poetry of Chaucer (408 pages; Southern Illinois University Press...
...GSAS seems to be taking a sterner attitude toward the people who do apply anyway, adopting a new format for rejection letters this spring...
...majority of present-day middle-class students at Radcliffe, and at 'Harvard as well, their current concern for the black and the poor and their wish for a fundamental social renovation will all too soon yield to the sterner imperatives of class, their own class: such, in my view, is the inevitability of historical process. And this generally regressive impulse will include a return of young women to the sexual role determined in their middle-class origins, that of woman's emotional submission to men, a submission most readily made manifest in economic abdication...
...rail-thin Videla, known as el Hueso (the Bone), is regarded as a moderate within the junta. Videla, who has resisted demands from hard-liners like Navy Admiral Emilio Massera for sterner repression of intellectuals and students, is committed to restoring civilian rule "once the situation permits." The military, he says, "does not have a totalitarian calling." Nonetheless, some Argentines fear there are high-ranking officers who would like to establish a neofascist regime...