Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gilt medal the heroic baker has to observe these stern commandments: bake excellent bread; build field ovens quickly; economize in the use of flour, butter and firewood; take care of the equipment; camouflage; be clean...
...Washington went Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, stern commander of the Fourth Army and the Western Defense Command when the West Coast shivered with Japanese jitters in the days following Pearl Harbor. Officials were cautioned to say nothing of his change of duty. Then somebody noticed that DeWitt's assignment was plainly and publicly listed in the new telephone directory. His new job: first commandant of the new Army & Navy Staff College for special training of higher-ranking Army, Navy and Marine officers in combined operations...
...Dictator, who had bound his people to their second disastrous alliance with Germany, proceeded the titular and real rulers of Bulgaria: the boy King Simeon II, the royal family, the Cabinet of Germanophile Premier Bogdan Filoff and, not least, the representatives of Adolf Hitler-portly Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, stern Fleet Admiral Erich Raeder...
...Stern, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos of Chile has been faced since his election in February 1942 with a chronic political crisis. His problem: to appease refractory, quarreling politicians of nine parties who cannot agree among themselves on what they want. His solutions: recurrent Cabinet reshuffles. His results: none...
Last week Sir Samuel flew to La Corufia with a stern warning for fat Franco. The time had come, Sir Samuel said, for the Caudillo to abandon his pro-Axis nonbelligerency, begin to think and act like a neutral. Sir Samuel added that the U.S. had full knowledge of his visit and message. In Franco's villa at Pazo de Leiras, outside La Corufia, Sir Samuel listed Britain's demands...