Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note to Warsaw (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) offered some stern pointers on Poland's impending November elections, which, according to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, are to be free & unfettered...
...editor, Elder signed on another old Macfadden hand, ex-Liberty Editor Ernest V. Heyn. To write his first number Heyn lined up such big leaguers as Bill Tilden and Bill Stern, brought in Grantland Rice as consulting editor. The first issue, out this week, featured big picture spreads on such top-notchers as Joe Di Maggio, Ben Hogan, Ted Williams, Joe Louis. Readers would get no exposes of sports. O.J. assumes that all his readers are hero worshipers, will give his subjects the same kind of glorifying treatment that his movie magazines give screen stars...
...Jewish patriots (and hardened soldiers newly arrived from Poland) are the most eager recruits for the Jewish underground organizations. Haganah (numbering an estimated 70,000) was organized to defend settlers from the Arabs, now helps illegal Jewish immigration. Two offshoots, the Irgun Zvai Leumi (3,000) and the Stern Gang (2,300), are the terrorist groups who believe that the only way to achieve the Jewish state is to drive the British out of Palestine...
...Bilbao, the Provincial Governor promised stern enforcement of the ban on bathing suits "so revealing as to be offensive to public modesty." In particular, bathers must immediately robe themselves upon leaving the water. No sun bathing in damp, clinging suits...
...correspondents realized it, but the U.S. press as well as the Bomb had been on trial at Bikini. The Bomb did its part. How had the press acquitted itself? Last week precise, Annapolis-trained Hanson W. Baldwin, military analyst of the New York Times, put into the record a stern account of slipshod work, "irresponsible sensationalism" and some more than raffish behavior...