Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department No. 1 is presided over by stern, righteous, feudal old Cordell Hull, architect of the reciprocal trade agreements, believer in old-fashioned international law, a Cabinet officer who is politically unassailable...
...afterdeck gun crew got into action, pumping five shells into the sub. The Jap's bow rose in the air, hung for a moment, then the enemy vessel plunged beneath the surface, stern first, at a 45-degree angle. Fifteen minutes after she had been sighted, the sub was one of the most definite kills of the war. The Little Fellow, somewhat banged up, made emergency repairs and limped home to a thundering welcome of cheers and whistle blasts...
Attacks 3 & 4 came in quick succession, but the first definite kill did not come until sunset after the sixth attack. A TBF placed all its bombs right under the U-boat's stern. It went down at once, then popped up, hopelessly out of control. Once more it sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat...
...hard-muscled youngster paused as he monkeyed up the ladder from the conning tower. "Permission-to-come-on-the-bridge-relieve-the-stern-lookout-sir?" he rattled off in a breath. The officer of the deck muttered: "Granted," returned to his own search of the darkness. Aft, the fresh-eyed lookout took the heavy Navy binoculars from the man on watch, began to scan his sector. Then his voice lifted over the wet mumble of the charging diesel: "Gunfire bearing one seven...
Surprise Choice. Tall, stern Lord Linlithgow, whose record term (seven and a half years) as Viceroy expires in October, was fishing near Simla in the cool fragrance of the Himalayan hills when Wavell's appointment was announced. Down in the plains, where the hot summer wind, the loo, pushed the mercury toward an unendurable 120°, Indian commentators wrote bitterly that Linlithgow had ruled through a period of turmoil unsurpassed since the mutiny of 1857. They had expected as his successor a hardheaded, reactionary politician, while hoping, faintly, for a statesman with "a fresh approach to the Indian problem...