Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the stern four of last June's boat intact and enough good material remaining from the 1941 Jayvees and Combos to guarantee high caliber oarsmen for the four vacant bow positions, there are plenty of indications that the 1942 eight will be a top-notch successer to last year's, the best crew Tom Bolles ever coached at Harvard...
...Jakie," as her crew called her, was off Cape May, N.J. when the first torpedo crumpled her bow, probably killing every officer and man on the bridge and most of the men in the forward sleeping quarters. Less than a minute later, a second torpedo blew in the stern, exploding some of the destroyer's own depth charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat, but it was no use: the explosions had wrecked the davits. Realizing that they would have to drop life rafts and jump after them into the numbing black water, the four sailors went...
...stern of the Jacob Jones broke off and sank, leaving the center section afloat. Dozens of men were in the water, some of them looking for rafts and calling for help. Seaman Dors left his raft, swam back to the hulk, tried to cut more rafts loose. He failed. When the water reached his ankles he shoved off again, found another raft. The rest of the "Jakie" went down with a mighty explosion that tossed nearby swimmers into the air like popcorn. The sun was high in the sky when a rescue boat found the survivors: Dors and ten other...
...group of sailors was standing in the stern of the W. D. Anderson, chewing the fat about foreign ports. One of them, Frank Leonard Terry, was a strong swimmer; he used to be a lifeguard. When the torpedo hit, he jumped overboard at once, without a life belt, while the rest hesitated. A billowing tower of fire and smoke swallowed the ship, and fire spread over the water. In the icy water Sailor Terry stripped off his clothes and swam hard for an hour, to get away from the fire. He could feel the heat of it on the back...
...found that, with four different quotations per pack in the first decks sent out, they could soon make a good guess at what opponents had in their hands. The W.C.T.U. was highly embarrassed when it got credit for issuing the cards. Mrs. Smith and her girl friends are as stern opponents of gambling as they are of beer...