Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile the British cabinet made a sharp, stern reply to Mossadeq's ultimatum. London announced that negotiations, already "in suspense," were now "broken off," and would remain so as long as Mossadeq stayed in office. It was the first step Britain had taken to force the intractable Premier out of office...
...airy "Let's go, boys" gesture to California's Governor Warren and San Francisco's Mayor Elmer Robinson, as he left the platform. Equally memorable were the lethal exchanges between Gromyko, as inflexible as granite, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, as impersonally stern as a veteran headmaster. Poland's bristling Stefan Wierblowski provided drama when, overruled, he remained on the stand, quivering with indignation and spluttering protests, but powerless against the Olympian calm of Acheson...
...comical result, says Ussher, is that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved the Jew. It has given him, in his urban life, a "peculiar and stern conditioning," robbing his intellect of "fresh and erratic blooms." Nature has become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher's hope that Jew and gentile may fashion an intellectual merger of their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle...
...oldtime PRI stalwart who has dished out stern treatment to political irregulars in his time, Henriquez took the punishment quietly. Things were not likely to get much easier. He still had 26 states to visit, all of them PRI-ruled...
Like its characters, The Limit has a wholly unprofessional air. Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony...