Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...
Forrestal's decision to knock J.C.S. heads together and get them to agree on a general plan for the nation's defense was the climax of months of wrangling. It followed two stern warnings, the first from the Finletter Commission (TIME, Jan. 19), the second from the more recent report of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board. Said the congressional report: "Unyielding adherence to service loyalties at the expense of national security is a luxury the nation can no longer afford." To these rebukes, outspoken Carl Hinshaw, vice chairman of the congressional board, last week added another: "Our country...
...legion of Hearstlings dredged the morgues for picture-page art. In Albany, a squad of Times-Union reporters was sent out to round up MacArthur votes and quotes, under stern orders not to take no for an answer. (At week's end, one reporter quit in disgust.) In Washington, MacArthur campaign offices were opened right "next to the Republican National Committee" with some of the black type usually reserved for ax-murderers...
...rest of the boat seems in no danger of being undermanned. Commencement robbed the Crimson of Captain Bob Stone and Stu Clark as well as Cunningham, and cox Al Petite. This leaves--reading from bow to stern--Mike Scully, Dick Emmet, Gale, Frank Strong, and Captain Paul Knaplund. There are gaps at the Two, four, stroke, and cox slots. The latter is not problem, for Jayvee taskmaster Sam King is due for promotion...
...years in Pittsburgh, Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner's sharp tongue and stern baton won him more admirers than friends. But he gave Pittsburgh an orchestra to be proud of. Three years ago, when the trustees let him build it up to 90 men and lengthen the season, the Pittsburgh Symphony became one of the ten best...