Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were strong enough to make Rhodesia feel more than a mild pinch, especially since prosperous South Africa would help Rhodesia make up any trade losses. But there was good reason for Wilson's stand. The blood ties between Britain and the white settlers of Rhodesia would make sterner measures highly unpopular.* And, as Wilson well knows, any recession in Rhodesia would hit the Africans harder than the whites. Smith has already threatened to deport 200,000 workers back to Malawai, a measure that would cripple Rhodesia's poverty-stricken neighbor, which depends heavily on their wages...
...Fish. Prodded by stiffer laws and sterner enforcement - this year 18 states adopted air-pollution bills, 19 en acted water-pollution legislation...
What was the squabble all about? Johnson somehow got the idea that at a background-only session held for a few reporters Ford had inspired stories that the President was chicken; that Ford had told the newsmen that Johnson wanted to take a sterner, tougher stand on Viet Nam, but had retreated because mild Mike Mansfield was threat ening to raise a big row. If this had been true, Johnson might have had reason to get mad. But it wasn't-and it's one of the mysteries of Washington how Johnson got his lines of information clogged...
...have told my wife to buy me a coffin.' But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me." See THE WORLD, Toward a Sterner Life...
True or not, such gemütlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white...