Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States, as leader of the free world, should be prepared, nevertheless, to enter the conflict itself if there is no other way to hearten other nations in the cause of freedom. Therefore, the Government should issue a stern warning to Russia that she withdraw her troops from Hungary, or face the certainty of armed UN action...
...friend's advice and took an examination for Annapolis and West Point. (The Navy lost a future admiral because he was eight months too old for the Naval Academy.) In June 1911 he reported for duty, "Eisenhower from Kansas, sir," thus consigning his frontier exuberance to the stern mold of discipline of the Point...
...first-year gross: $60 million), three floors of a four-story addition were completed at Foley Brothers, the only major Houston department store that has not opened a single suburban branch. Allied Stores Corp., which owns 32 department stores (Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., New York's Stern Bros.) in Eastern cities, is spending $250 million for expansion of shopping-center branches. Allied is also investing $3 in its downtown facilities for every $1 it is putting into suburban centers, Board Chairman B. Earl Puckett disclosed last week. Said he: "We doubt that more than...
...autocrats brought to power by World War II was a stern but kindly old gentleman who had no claim to kingship, no ambition to tyranny, and no practice in governing. His realm was a miniature collection of former German areas annexed by Belgium and strung out along its border like charms on a bracelet. Under a six-power agreement signed in Paris in 1949, these territories, 7,789½ acres in all, were placed under a special and independent administration, pending a final peace treaty. The man chosen to head that administration was Major General Paul Bolle, grizzled and nearsighted...
...Last week, in the face of similar intransigence on the part of Demo-Christian Premier Antonio Segni and his government, peppery, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola, president of Italy's fledgling Constitutional Court, struck back with an effectiveness that would have won a smile of approval from stern old John Marshall...