Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legend. Win or lose, the most interesting candidate was a stern, greying airman of 49, Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. He helped start three revolts, quell a fourth, was already a hero to Brazilians. As a fierce young idealist in an abortive revolt of 1922, he had been one of the Dezoito do Forte, 18 irreconcilables who had preferred death on Copacabana's bloody beach to surrender. Badly wounded, Gomes and two others survived. He fought again in the São Paulo rebellion of 1924. In 1930 he marched to power as one of Getulio Vargas' "young lieutenants...
Saint Francis of Assisi, "the Saint of Love," changed "the stern Christian doctrine of the Middle Ages . . . into a message of good cheer." Love was not only "the essence of Francis' life," it was the only path he could conceive of toward wisdom, action, beauty, human brotherhood, and the bridge between...
...foreign policy more weight than they had been accorded in the U.S. : "We should now make it clear to the United States that we will march at their side in the cause that President Truman has defined, that we will add our strength to their strength, that their stern, sober efforts shall be matched by our own. If everything else fails, which we must not admit, here is the best chance of survival...
...Sunday radio program, the Mayor (who leaves office on Dec. 31) lectured New York housewives on the best way to cook a big turkey in a small oven: "The stern of the turkey, you know, the rear end-they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan...
When they met German colonists in Poland, living peacefully on idyllic farms and in comfortable apartments, their discipline cracked. Some went wild, looting, raping, killing. The Red Army command took stern measures, but it could not change the basic fact which made for all the trouble: the discrepancy between the standard of living in Russia and in the rest of Europe. For centuries, Russia's standard has been lower, and still is, despite the gigantic Communist effort of the last two decades...