Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newspapers carried photographs of stern Admiral Ernest J. King-whose smiles are almost as rare as Stalin's-actually laughing; even more startling, both he and Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey were shown with drinks in their hands...
...liked to spend weekends drinking and gambling himself, aboard a craft known as the "Bum Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...
Last week the same officers, on instructions from Major General Thompson Lawrence, reconsidered their stern sentence. While Senator Burt Wheeler demanded a Congressional inquiry, the court-martial reduced Weber's sentence to dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Said Weber morosely: "With a revolutionary mind you lose your place in the new society...
...Peasant-born Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov is a resolute, imperturbable man. His was the determination that transformed a clumsy, sloppy, commissar-ridden Red Army into a gigantic machine that runs smoothly on stern discipline...
...Network announces the election of Phillip Stern '47, as President; Charles Shaw '46, as Technical Director; William Sullivan '45, as Business Manager; and Cliff Wharton '47, as Production Director. Martin Book-span '47, continues as Program Manager...