Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet and lean, 10,000 tons, with a 100,000-h.p. heart and fifteen 6-in. guns for her voice. Only her boxy stern, where she could carry eight planes, and the squat derrick cocked on her fantail, marred her clean lines. She was water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone...
...been trained on one of the big Jap ships. She opened up with a blinding burst of flame, sank it. Her secondary battery smashed one Jap destroyer then another. Other U.S. ships were firing salvos, but the Helena chose to use "continuous fire." Her gunflames flared from stem to stern. In the brief moment left of her life she loosed perhaps a thousand rounds from main batteries alone and her thunder could be heard for miles...
Some military censors like to write cozy postscripts to soldiers' mail, have even been known to slip money into letters to folks at home. Last week the War Department issued a stern warning...
...HENRY M. STERN...
...week General Eaker said that the tactical role will soon be paramount: "It is the task," said he, "of the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. to destroy the factories and transport and weapons of the Germans so that our invasion casualties will be cut down. That is our stern assignment this winter...