Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was apparently playing tricks with Jap vision. The broad wake of a PT, plus the outline of the LCI, must have looked like bigger game. The torpedoes were launched too close to arm themselves and explode on impact. Four, possibly seven torpedoes were launched. One dolphined over the stern of the Who, Me?, another under the stern. One caught the LCI squarely, tore through the steel sides without-exploding. It smashed instruments, and flying debris wounded...
...staff car, spattering every one of us with mud and water from head to foot." He traced the successive phases of the first Battle of the Marne by the graves of the dead and thought of the "dreadful toll in human life." But he was a stern man and believed in the attack...
...your Oct. 4 issue, I note you have printed the picture . . . showing a cargo ship loading war matériel through the bow or stern. ... On close examination you will see what appears to be a large red cross on the side of the boat or on some superstructure near...
...news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...
This mounting chorus of concern over wartime moral conditions in Britain was swelled last week by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. In a stern joint statement they said: "Since the outbreak of the war there has been a large increase in venereal disease [120%], both among the civilian population and ... in the forces. This brings ruin and unhappiness to thousands of homes and has become a grave danger to the health of the nation...