Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judging the Navy's humiliation at Pearl Harbor bear in mind that the Government in Washington may be equally to blame...
...combination of leaders, maniacs excepted, would tackle Uncle Sam-particularly now when the desert blisters and the Russian Bear bites...
...from the Japanese base at Palau in the Mandated Islands 600 miles east of Davao). Colonel Hilsman's worst problem was likely to be the Japanese population of Davao, estimated as high as 25,000, composed predominantly of men and flecked heavily with youngsters whose carriage and demeanor bear the unmistakable marks of military training...
...East Asia. "The Philippine Islands," wrote Lea, "bear the same strategic relationship to the Southern Asian coast as the Japanese islands do to the Northern. . . . Without the Philippines, Japan's dominion in Asian seas will be no more than tentative, and her eventual domination or destruction will depend upon who holds these islands." Considering U.S. unpreparedness in the Philippines as of the time he was writing, Homer Lea said the islands could be captured by Japanese as easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only...
...Grim-faced Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith announced he would quit the brokerage business. Ben Smith reportedly made up to $10,000,000 monthly in spectacular bear raids during 1929-30. Since then he has dabbled in everything from airplanes to pepper: Grumman Aircraft, several Mexican oil deals, Alaska-Juneau and Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, George Weston bakeries, the magazine Pathfinder, Eddie Dowling's girlie show Thumbs Up, the promotion of Dick Merrill's transatlantic flight...