Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scope and in detail the stern demands of the nation's preparation for war -in Korea and whatever lay beyond-were rapidly becoming clear. Leaders of both parties, united in the nation's determination to meet the aggressions of the U.S.S.R. and its satellites, were also in overall agreement on the things that had to be done. Where there were differences they lay in the area of ways & means...
...Taft warned the Senate that the country might be facing possibly ten to 15 years of higher military budgets, i.e., ten to 15 years of wars or preparation for The War. While Taft was not yet ready to approve all the controls the President demanded, he had a stern formula of his own. He wanted Congress to impose higher taxes to put the nation on a pay-as-you-go basis right away. His suggestion: a 25% increase in income taxes...
...Creek in Iowa, he became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
...broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain. Said Oboist Marcel Tabuteau: "It is not possible to believe what Casals does with a bow. There has never been anyone like him." For voluble young Violinist Isaac Stern, Casals had "opened a door in the walls-our conventional conceptions of music-and showed us how we can go beyond without losing respect for the music itself." What he would remember most was "the meeting with a man, and the relation of this man to his art. This...
Addressing 400 fashion experts at a Fashion Group luncheon last week in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, Allied Stores Corp.'s B. Earl Puckett was stern. "Basic utility," said he, "cannot be the foundation of a prosperous apparel industry . . . We must accelerate obsolescence." Reminding his listeners that 1948's apparel sales had been exceptionally good because of that year's one-shot "New Look," Puckett added that what was needed was a New Look every year. "Money that was not spent for soft lines . . . was not spent on other lines of merchandise, but was saved...