Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked back over my shoulder and saw a great red sheet of flame with smoky edges hanging in the sky above our stern. I once more struggled to my feet, just in time to be thrown over by the second torpedo which hit us amidships. . . . Somebody said "Put your arm around my neck," and we all trooped...
Dickson was in the bows and managed to free the falls from that end, but before the stern falls could be cut or cast off, the Yorkshire reared her bows into the air and slid backwards to the bottom...
...month-old effort to conquer the Finns. Up to the Mannerheim Line he moved more and heavier artillery, including some "Little Berthas" and fresh troops from Siberia and the Caucasus, trained for bitter-weather fighting. To launch his new offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland is a democratic country. Why don't they leave her alone...