Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, little Carlos P. Romulo, chief of the Philippine delegation to the United Nations, had some stern strictures for both the abashed Quirino government and the Filipinos themselves. Said he: "Upon this [the elimination of the Hukbalahaps] depends the survival of our democracy or its humiliating descent to the status of a banana republic under a government by coup...
Recalls Teacher Scalero, now 79, retired and living in Italy: "The boy had some stuff in him, but he was most undisciplined and raw." Fixing him with a stern eye, he said, "GianCarlo, if I am to teach you, we must come to an agreement, you and I. I promise you that I will be uncompromisingly severe. Do you promise me to put in some very hard work, something you have never done before?" Gian-Carlo promised. And, says Scalero, "he abided by his agreement." Thanks to Scalero's perseverance in making him compose simple motets (polyphonic choral works...
Only one mishap marred the trip. When one of the canoes overturned, it was caught, battered by the current, and badly damaged. According to onlookers, "the stern just seemed to wave in the water." No one, however, was injured...
...FRANK G. STERN Kew Gardens...
...they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...