Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city. By evening tire prices had been slashed as much as 56%. All dealers did a roaring but highly unprofitable business as private owners and truck fleet operators jammed in to buy tires for the next two or three years. Next day the big Akron rubber companies wired stern orders for the skirmish to cease. Back up went Cleveland's tire prices even faster than they had come down...
Speaking to the Chamber of Commerce at Leeds, but addressing the U. S. public, tall, stern Mr. Chamberlain rejected all bargaining (carrot & donkey), ignored disarmament, observed: "We believe that the total cancellation of War Debts and Reparations would be the best thing that could happen to the world as a whole...
...Authority is not to be begged for but to be taken!" thundered Speaker Jeanneney. "The time has come to take stern measures to restore the State's authority...
...always so, as will testify the deep sardonic lines which frame his smiling mouth like a stern proscenium...
...stern, scarlet Mother Hubbard is the Soviet State. In one of her Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...