Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still bustling with civilian prosperity. More than a year after the Korean war began, six months after the President proclaimed a national emergency, there is no trace of stern austerity, though the nation is both fighting a big war and mobilizing against the threat of a bigger one. Stores still bulge with everything from aluminum ski poles at $7.95 a pair to metal-hulled cabin cruisers at $5,500 each. Most corporate profits are at record-breaking levels or close to it. So are prices-and so too are wages. Instead of becoming a garrison state, the U.S. could tell...
...Reds stalemated, Prime Minister Holland was expected to revoke the emergency regulations. New Zealanders felt that democracy, stern though its measures were, had won an important victory...
Hatter or Poet? Keats never had things easy. His father, a stableman, died when Keats was nine, and his mother remarried, unhappily. The boy's guardian was a stern merchant who mistrusted poetry on principle, and thought John would be better off as a hatter...
...contrast to her mild, quiet husband, who never scolded the boys, Mamie Thurber was a hurled hand grenade. The class comic in school, a star at amateur theatricals, for a while she considered running away from home and going on the professional stage. Her stern Methodist father scotched that, clamping down on even the amateur theatricals, but it made no difference. Mamie kept right on performing...
...James Stern...