Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HOWARD W. STERN...
When grapnels touched "an object" at 73 fathoms (440 feet) submen knew what to expect: at that depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
...Robin Moor half an hour to abandon ship. The passengers were roused. Three more boats were lowered. As the sun rose, after the boats were in the water, the submarine fired a torpedo into the Robin Moor amidships, shelled her for 23 minutes. She went wearily down by the stern...
...Patrick Dollan is a stern, old-fashioned Socialist and onetime conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
...pilot dropped to 100 feet, skidded his Beaufort around the stern of one of the port-flanking destroyers, squared away, launched a tin fish, and sheered off to the left within 100 yards of the pocket battleship's bow. There was a tense pause. Then the rear gunner shouted: "There's a column of water!" The pilot banked to have a look, and all he could see was what seemed to him a beautiful cloud of dirty white smoke...