Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pretoria farm Death came last week to Great Britain's most famed South African enemy, stern, pious General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, 76. Until recently he had been planning a comeback against South Africa's durably philosophical Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, 72. Hertzog protégés attempted a back-room coalition of four factions opposing Smuts. But the coalition failed to congeal. The sturdy old leader who hated Britain made no head way against the sinewy little internationalist who has long since looked beyond South African-British feuding to the possibilities...
...stern disciplinarian, but he has the devotion of his men. Famous are his orders to his staff at the beginning of a conference: "I do not approve of coughing or smoking. There will be no smoking. For two minutes you may cough. Thereafter coughing will cease." Nor does he drink...
Tokyo Radio complained that Brigadier General Claire Chennault's U.S. flyers in China fought unfairly: they zipped into target areas, dropped their bombs and zipped right out again before the Japs had a chance to fight back. Unless Chennault changed his tactics, said the Japs, they would take stern measures...
With a time of 1.23:51, Besse was followed very closely by Edward H. Harding '45, who was running his first race. The remaining placers included John Stern '45, third, John Parrish '45, who was only a half second behind Stern, and Tom Allen '45, head of the club...
...strong man, former General Electric President Charles Edward Wilson, ran into so much trouble last week that he was close to resigning. He had orders from Donald Nelson to take full charge of aircraft production, which has coasted along on a laissez-faire basis. But Nelson did not take stern action to whip the Army & Navy into line. He merely called in some military men for "discussions." Sharp differences of opinion arose; Wilson suddenly discovered that he had full responsibility without full power...