Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of his displaced cousins (practically all of them were related to Queen Victoria in one way or another) who had to drive taxis or serve as waiters to keep alive, Philip's life was clothed in comfortable, if slightly shabby, respectability, kept crisp with starch by a stern British nanny named Miss Roose. Nanny Roose taught him English as his first language, saw to it that her bumptious charge stayed clean and neat, that he responded with gracious dignity when addressed as "Your Royal Highness," and that his royal bottom never wanted for a good sound spanking when...
...stiffening the backbones of overprivileged young Britons for 300 years. Young Philip's start there as a "mealy eye" or new boy was not entirely auspicious. "Do you like Mr. Taylor?'' he asked the headmaster's wife after an early taste of Cheam's stern discipline. The experienced Mrs. Taylor countered expertly: "Do you, Philip?" she asked. "No." said the young scholar with flat finality...
...else was seasick, he did all the cooking and dishwashing). He early proved he could do most things with less effort than other boys, sometimes showed impatience and intolerance for those less gifted. In a letter of recommendation when Philip decided to enter the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, stern Dr. Hahn wrote: "Prince Philip is a born leader, but he will need the exacting demands of a great service to do justice to himself. His best is outstanding; his second best is not good enough...
...trouble accepting." But the French bishops formally admitted their errors, issued a statement that, "to avoid all misunderstanding, one will not use the expression 'progressive catechism.' " The Holy Office decided that withdrawal of the catechism would not be necessary, ordered insertions correcting "Formal errors," last week sent stern Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani "to work out a lasting compromise in the vexed question of religious teaching in France...
...tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord cited the Little Rock crisis (''The moral sense of the nation has been outraged''), continued: "We must seek and find the courage to do the true thing. Today...