Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June he had cried: "We are fighting against cruelty, tyranny and treachery in their most detestable forms. That is why we cannot agree with the Pope when he coupled together those who commenced the war with those who prolong it, or when he suggests a negotiated peace." While remaining stern, he ended on a softer note. Said he last week: "For us to accept into full fellowship an offender who has committed wrongs against God and man, who still exults in his wickedness and proposes to repeat it when the occasion offers, would mean that we identified ourselves with...
...bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting a Hellcat-two fly-like dots against the sky going around like Ferris wheels. Our ship opened up again. Black bursts broke high over us and I saw a dive bomber readying...
...stern school on the Hudson the pattern was almost broken. In his first year Cadet Hodges was "found": he flunked in geometry, and had to leave the Academy. But Courtney Hodges was going to be a soldier, and an officer, if he could contrive it. A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier. It was up the ladder from there on-corporal and then sergeant in the 17th Infantry, and then a chance for a commission. Sergeant Hodges had turned into a hard, determined student...
Alexander Knox and Geraldine Fitzgerald lend an earnest dignity to the roles of the President and Mrs. Wilson. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Senator Cabot Lodges breathes into every line the chill of his stern conviction. With fire and authenticity of representation, Marcel Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss...
...beach of Eniwetok, one of the Marshall Islands, where U.S. troops fought and died a few months ago, now stands a Navy officers' mess, in front of it a stern notice: "There will be no drinking by anyone on the pier and all skylarking and needless pushing and pulling must be stopped...