Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of trained men who could be mobilized at a moment's notice. Its policy now is to match U.S. world obligations with U.S. strength. Soon the U.S. would dispatch five divisions and an air force of upwards of 800 planes to Europe. In keeping with this stern-sounding policy, these divisions would be combat-seasoned regulars from Korea; at least one would be sent to Europe direct, without being given furloughs...
...Decisions. He was old and he looked feeble, and gossip spread that he couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a devastating logic. George Catlett Marshall, who inspired some of the same kind of respect, jumped when Stimson beckoned...
...agreed that the profiteering food sellers should be rooted out and recommended a stern course of direct action. All the buyer had to do was call a policeman and the profiteer would be jailed in the Villa Devoto. Said Perón: "We shall close down for good all shops of all profiteers so that in the future only honest traders will be in business...
...generation born in depression, weaned on world war, and greeted, at 18, with a conscription number, President Henry M. Wriston of Brown University offered some stern guidance...
Robert J. Stern '50 also attended as chairman of the Northern New England Region and steering committee member, while Richard M. Sandler '52 acted as observer for the Student Council...