Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week's long and factual report Fred Vinson did some thinking beyond V-J day, about the future of the U.S. in general. A believer in an expanding economy, he called for as much hard work, as much stern industry and as much solid unity in peace as the nation has known in war. If that is achieved, he said, "the American people are in the pleasant predicament of having to learn to live 50% better than they have ever lived before...
Some fissures were at last appearing in the armor of Bushido-the stern warrior code. By Western standards, the rate of surrender was still low indeed, but Japanese prisoners, once a rarity in the Pacific, were coming in as never before. Psychological warfare units worked hard to encourage more...
...Stern Judges. The judges entered. Four were regular magistrates with stern expressions ; five were representatives of left-wing parties. Koch was called to the bar by the president. He might have been walking into a cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender. He merely nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting...
This one-his sixth since taking office-turned out to be a long (8,000 words) review of the war and a restatement of reconversion policies. It was notable chiefly for a stern warning to Japan that unconditional surrender is, and will remain, the firm U.S. policy. Said the President: the U.S. will double its forces now in the Pacific, will hurl against Japan an army greater than the 3,000,000-man force which helped crush the Wehnnacht. Significantly, next day brought word that famed, fighting Admiral "Bull" Halsey was back in the Pacific with his redoubtable Third Fleet...
...Planes were all around-lots of ours and at least 30 of theirs. Twenty started converging on us from the north. . . . Five-inch guns shot one down 1,000 yards off and another close aboard. Two circled to the stern and No. 3 [gun] mount shot both down, one so close we got our first casualty-one man killed. A moment later a Val [Japanese dive bomber] exploded just off the starboard quarter, injuring several men. A plane from the port bow grazed the No. 3 mount and exploded near enough to put one gun out of action...