Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...
This was too much for members of the investigating subcommittee. Its members, thanks largely to the stern and judicial guidance of North Carolina's frock-coated old Clyde Hoey, had conducted themselves with rare restraint. They immediately released all secret testimony concerning Vaughan...
Congressional resentment showed in the horny-handed handling it gave the ECA appropriation, in the stony eye it cast on the arms program, despite an all-star presentation by Secretary of State Acheson, George Marshall and the Big Brass in summer tans. Internationalists of proven good will were as stern as hard-shelled isolationists...
...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...weeks, Washington gossips had been telling one another that the capital's biggest and gaudiest newspaper would soon change hands; they had identified the buyers as everybody from young Bill Hearst and young Tommy Stern (who bought the New Orleans Item last fortnight) to the Washington Post's Eugene Meyer. Hardly anybody had suspected that it would be Bertie...