Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been obvious that her mission was going badly. She was the guest of Mrs. George Marshall at Leesburg, Va., and had twice gone to Walter Reed Hospital to see the Secretary of State. But, as far as anyone knew, her old friend George Marshall had held to his stern decision that there was nothing more which the U.S. could or should do to help China now-a decision reinforced by the fact that Chinese Nationalists had surrendered 236,000 rifles, 14,000 machine guns and 26,000 tommy guns in recent battles to the Communists without a fight...
...Stern, stiff-necked Stepfather Fontaine ruled the household pretty much as though it were a department in his store. He imposed all manner of hard rules, including a strict lights-out at 8:15. Livvie had to study in bed, with a flashlight underneath her blanket...
Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...
...also made the belated discovery that fast-moving CBS had routed them on another front. The Rose Bowl game will be aired this year by CBS. Other networks had grabbed up the remaining big bowl games. At week's end, NBC Sports Director Bill Stern was hastily dickering for the rights to broadcast the last remaining games of any consequence (Jacksonville's 'Gator Bowl and San Diego's Harbor Bowl). For the first time in 21 years, it looked as if a badly battle-scarred NBC might have no bowl broadcast...
Football Czar Oscar Nicolini (who is also Argentina's director of Post & Telegraphs) was no man to suffer such a rebuke in silence. Promptly he called a meeting of the powerful governing body, AFA (Asociación de Futbol Argentina'). To teach the players a stern lesson, AFA voted to wash out the rest of the season...