Word: sternest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Fisher is congenitally clumsy, addled despite her sternest efforts at control, and at least a full generation older than Walter. He is nevertheless severely smitten. The movie is at its quiet best, funny and affectionate, as it chronicles their unlikely courtship. Walter woos Miss Fisher by rushing her, trying to blow her off her unsteady feet with little gusts of adolescent energy. They nearly do not get together. Miss Fisher, despairing of herself and of some mysterious, occasionally violent speech impediment, attempts suicide, but is revived by the eager Walter, who finds himself bleating all manner of hortatory clich...
There is plenty of support in New York and elsewhere for the sternest possible drug-control measures. Said...
...Strategy. After a deceptively sluggish start, Baltimore had yawned its way to the American League's Eastern Division championship. In the playoff opener against the Oakland A's, the Orioles faced their sternest test: Vida Blue, the fireballing lefty who led the A's to the championship of the American League's Western Division with a record of 24 wins and eight losses (including two victories over Baltimore). Blue was brilliant through the first six innings, but tired noticeably in the seventh. Exploding for four runs, Baltimore went on to win 5-3. After taking...
...sternest test comes each winter when the great pinkfeet migrate from Iceland to roost in the wheat and potato fields of Lincolnshire. Considered Britain's ranking expert on wild geese, Thorpe has banded the pinkfoot for conservation, painted it on canvas, filmed it, shot 3,800 himself and instructed countless other guns−from the Queen Mother's private secretary to Actor Richard Todd−on the wily ways of "the loveliest bird that flies." The call of the pinkfoot, says Thorpe, is the most difficult to imitate. By recording the geese's ringing...
...mood turned to alarm on Sunday morning, Sept. 20, when Syrian tanks rolled southward to relieve pressure on the commandos. Israeli troops began massing along the Jordanian border to the west. Nixon asked Secretary of State William Rogers to warn the Russians again. He did so, in the sternest note that the Nixon Administration has yet sent to Moscow. It threatened the "gravest consequences" if the Syrians did not withdraw...