Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensible, earnest Elmer Davis, who had set the tone of these official utterances and okayed one of them personally, was bound to take this as a stern rebuke. So were the speakers themselves. Many a Washington official wondered how the President, after one quick glimpse of war plants, could be so confident of his own statistics-94 or 95% of the goals-when their own charts showed a less rosy picture. Congressmen and correspondents wondered how, after his conducted tours, he could be so sure that he knew better than anyone the temper of the people...
...stars & stripes fluttered down from the stern of the PC-467; the U.S. crew marched briskly off. To their places stepped a new crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
...terrible list to starboard. Her flight deck was in the water. Her battle flags were still flying. We hadn't taken them down. As she went over, they flew till they were in the water. She went down, no commotion, no explosions, no fire. She went stern first...
Sailors tossed shells overboard. Two destroyers stood in against the Wakefield's sides and with a cruiser at the stern began taking on passengers who scrambled down landing nets. The bridge of one destroyer crunched against the huge transport's plates. The destroyer's captain yelled: "To hell with the bridge, hold...
...fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does his job as soberly as if it were a military assignment, can quite convince anyone that he is anything but the too-familiar, patriotic young actor, doing his best not to look like...