Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Akron rubber workers, striking because a pay raise of 8? an hour recommended by a WLB panel had been reduced by the Board itself to 3?. President Roosevelt sent a stern telegram which damned the strike as "inexcusable," curtly ordered: "Return to work at once." The strikers went back. They had lost in five days enough time to have produced some $17,000,000 worth of plane deicers, self-sealing gas tanks, combat tires, life rafts, anti-aircraft guns, gas masks. They still demanded...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...battleship Oklahoma, once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...
...Embezzler and Double Indemnity are stern moral warnings that it is easier to embezzle money than to put it back, to murder husbands than to collect their accident insurance. Both tales are also remarkable examples of the art with which Cain makes unfamiliar readers feel at home in such worlds as banking and insurance, the skill with which he uses business routines to build suspense...
...reason: she had learned that "Winchell's contract with his radio sponsor . . . allows him to escape payment of any judgment that may be rendered against him. ..." 2) When New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief John O'Donnell's libel suit against Publisher J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record, which had called O'Donnell a "Naziphile," was tried several months ago, O'Donnell was awarded $50,000 damages (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week a three-judge Philadelphia court (including the judge who had presided at the trial) set aside the verdict on the grounds...