Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positions remain as they are today, then it is our clear duty to say so to the world and to admit that we have failed. I say this with infinite regret, but it is our stern duty to face realities." In London the Foreign Office hinted that now Britain would be willing to press ahead with plans for a Southeast Asia pact...
...youngster, he learned golf under the stern eye of his brother Homer, who showed him how to drive a ball toward a hole in a cow pasture, and gave him a kick in the pants every time he muffed a shot...
...strange hissing noise coming from the giant hydraulic catapult mechanism on the deck just over his head. He was hardly out of bed before he felt the soft concussion of a flash-fire explosion, then the rending blast of a second that shook Big Ben from stem to stern...
...instant the stern face softened, the tight lips relaxed. Then the stiff-backed British general, regaining his composure, turned on his polished heel and marched towards his airliner at Kuala Lumpur in western Malaya. General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, the man who saved Malaya from the Communists, was on his way home, a job well done...
Although both Ford and General Motors have issued stern warnings against bootlegging, they are not anxious to bail out their dealers by cutting back production or lowering prices. For one thing, the Justice Department is already looking into the auto industry, worried because Ford and G.M. have gobbled up 83% of the auto market in their production race. Any price cut would only hurt such staggering independents as Studebaker, Hudson and Kaiser even more, and bring antitrust agents to Detroit at a dead...