Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire-bombing of Japanese cities. The price the U.S. had paid for the desolate pinprick of land on the road to Japan had been bitterly high. But while they winced at the cost, military men and most U.S. citizens knew that it was part, and only part, of the stern bargain that had to be made...
...Jimmy Byrnes, as many suspected, was trying (perhaps at Army suggestion) to get at the conscience of the U.S. people and make them realize that they still face a stern war, he had indeed found the conscience. Municipal officials, jumping in to enforce the order, found general, if wondering, cooperation from the people who had to close down...
...Government and the Council on Books in Wartime embarked early in 1943 on a mass production publishing venture. Sponsored and paid for (average cost: 6? a volume) by the Army and Navy, Editions for the Armed Services has turned out, under the management of Philip Van Doren Stern, over 40 million copies of 500 books. To fit existing presses as well as G.I. pockets, the books are made in two sizes: half that of a standard digest-size magazine, and half that of a pulp magazine. Bound like pocket bird guides, they are printed in double columns of clear type...
Treasured Tatters. G.I. tastes, says Editor Stern, have followed those of civilians pretty closely, except that the soldiers have little use for war books. In a list that includes most recent bestsellers, many classics and a few anthologies, the most popular to date is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One marine, after more than two years in the Pacific, read A Tree and claimed that it changed his whole life...
...National Tory Leader John Bracken has charged that hundreds of home defense draftees threw their rifles into the ocean in protest against being sent overseas to fight. For weeks, Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton has denied the charge. Last week, after John Bracken had made his charge again, stern, scowling General McNaughton exploded with lyric wrath...