Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched his step. A civil servant since 1905, Sir John became known as "The Man Without Mercy" for his administration (as joint Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) of Britain's Black and Tan police during the Irish Rebellion of 1919-21 and for his stern rule as Bengal's Governor from...
...order laid out for every soldier the nature of his mission. It also warned that considerate treatment must be given the French-"It is regrettable that we must destroy all of these gallant foes who oppose us and who at heart are sympathetic to us, but such is the stern necessity of war." It concluded...
...where the cavalry should have been brought up, and when the flank should have been turned, the wretched man who has to do the work finds the matter settled for him by pestilence, want of shoes, empty stomachs, bad roads, heavy rains, hot suns, and a thousand other stern warriors who never show on paper...
...stocky, rugged Justice Rutledge, 48, had more than geography to recommend him. Least known nationally of all Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court appointees, he is famed among legal scholars. He was a stern critic of the old Supreme Court for declaring child labor laws unconstitutional, is a stanch believer in liberal interpretation of the Constitution's "general welfare" clause. Yet his views are far from radical: his appointment was first suggested by Iowa's conservative Senator Guy M. Gillette...
...swooped in. Only one plane got through, a torpedo bomber. It was just taking the attitude for its drop when shells clipped its wings. It flipped up and shot the torpedo high in the air, right across the fantail and into the sea on the opposite side of the stern...