Word: sternest
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...last he came out on the platform. Curtly canceling the program, Chiang snapped the sternest rebuke he has ever given in public...
...Navy Court allowed that if any possible blame could possibly be put on Navy men, it belonged, not to brass hats, but to two men far down the line-two lieutenant commanders upon whom Secretary Knox, in an accompanying letter, turned his sternest glare...
...such alarums, these rosy, sensuous canvases expressed not a hint: Painter Renoir had been too busy painting life's happy hues. The sternest people like to look at his peaceful nudes and landscapes. Even the Bolsheviks hung a roomful in Moscow's Museum of Modern Western Art, though they felt obliged to put up a warning: that Renoir was "a bourgeois whose art consistently ignored the great class struggle through the most important part of which he lived...
...loudspeaker on a truck said in sternest tones: "When I shout the word, everyone, including the press, must put on his mask...
...there were trouble in Palestine, there would be repercussions in Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India," continued the Secretary. "... I must tell the House that we have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated...