Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, 53, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to the Federation of Malaya, was a man who seemed to be precisely what he was - a stern and incorruptible servant of Empire. Like a hundred colonial administrators before him, he was a public-school man (Winchester) and an Oxford graduate. He served his apprenticeship in jungles from Jamaica to the Gold Coast, and everywhere earned a reputation as "a man who got things done." The conversation of friends discussing Sir Henry in clubs near Whitehall was seldom if ever leavened with warm, personal anecdote, but words like "courage...
...family's beginnings. He and his twin brother Russell (now an Army colonel) were born in 1902 in Leavenworth, Kans., where their father was a broomcorn merchant. They were a devoutly lighthearted Irish Catholic family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara Boyle, "but he always got by." One day Bill and Russell were tossing a knife into the turf when a priest walked up behind them and coughed. Bill looked up beamingly. "Such...
McCarthy the investigator took his place in the Senate hearing room where the Hoey subcommittee, of which he is a member, grilled Bill Boyle. McCarthy was stern with witnesses. "Don't be coy with me," he snapped at Boyle's friend Max Siskind. But in mid-session, McCarthy had to leave. "I happen to be testifying myself," he explained...
...teams and I want to see most of the boys in action." The young coach did, however, name a tentative first string. The line shapes up with Bob Cochran and Jim Ross at ends, Stan Pfahl and Bernie Kafka at tackles, guards Herb Grossman and Tim Anderson, and Pete Stern at center. Stern won the starting nod over Chuck Wood and Bill Toohey, although the latter two can be expected to see plenty of action. The backfield has Tom Cambell at quarterback. Joe Conzelman and Frank White at the halfback positions and Bob Albert at fullback...
...fiscal year 1951 for such unmilitary radio & TV shows as roller-derbies, The Shadow, and Ralph Flanagan's band. For 1952, the recruiters had signed up Singer Frankie Laine ($434,602), a weekly football game ($117,166), and a 15-minute weekly Bill Stern sportcast ($254,867). Just what, asked Vermont's Senator George Aiken, did all this outlay "have to do with the work of the armed services...