Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stern indictment was a 13O-page booklet written in language no nation ordinarily uses unless it is prepared to go to war. The booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...
...sudden death scarcely stir the branches of this moss-hung family tree. Only uncultured Huey Long's drooling henchman is really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions is a shrewd...
...stepped balding Director Roger N. Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union, staunch defender of labor's rights, to give labor a stern warning. Unions, he said, must stop abusing the right to picket by such tactics as the use of force and mass picketing which deny the right of management, maintenance crews and office workers to enter struck plants...
Szell, 48, is a tall, near-bald, thick-spectacled Czech-Hungarian, who conducted the Berlin State Opera B.H. (Before Hitler). A stern, formal leader, he has since 1942 conducted some of the Metropolitan Opera's best-disciplined performances. He plans to add eight men to the Cleveland orchestra, to bring its membership to 92. Said he: "A new leaf will be turned over with a bang! People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight...
...Navy captain blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...