Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold heaving sea, some holding babies in their arms. Lifeboats and rafts capsized. The numbed and the injured lost their precarious hold on the overturned boats, were swept away. Within half an hour of the attack the ship itself heeled over and disappeared, its captain standing at the stern, shouting: "Get into the boats and look after yourselves." Many went down with it, still more were sucked into the whirlpool. House-high waves twisted and filled the boats, swamped several. Rain and hail and wind tortured the survivors to unconsciousness and death...
...French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...Stern is the surveillance of her tender audience, which permits her to take no liberties with favorite stories. Only human, it likes plenty of gore along with its fantasy. Miss Mack keeps in constant touch with her fans, being a specialist at deciphering childish handwriting. Best letter she's received to date: "Will you please send me a free fairy...
President Cardenas moved the following day to cool off the labor revolt, which threatened to spread to Communist-dominated unions. He issued a stern ultimatum to workers on the railroads not to split from CTM. He warned oil workers that unless they reorganized the entire industry within a reasonable time, he would cut wages, drop bonuses and take "other steps to get the industry back on a paying basis." The President's warning went down badly and not only the oil and rail workers, but also Government employes in the communications services threatened a general strike...