Word: crystallizer
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...wrecked what might have been a conquest of the world. Japan's strategic plan, its climax an invasion of the Aleutians, bombardment of the U.S. Northwest and seizure of critical areas, had "initially failed when she missed the opportunity of landing troops on Hawaii." George Marshall made it crystal clear that the U.S. had had much good luck in the war before it had much good management...
...world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal water will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world...
...factor was political; general elections were near and it took no crystal gazer to detect what the people wanted...
...Hong Kong, Britain's Chinese crown colony. Did Britain mean to keep it or give it up? First socialist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin answered bluntly: "We have taken steps to receive the surrender of the Japanese forces in Hong Kong." Then Prime Minister Clement Attlee made the matter crystal-clear: "Plans for re-establishing British administration in the colony are fully prepared...
...Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened Indian policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado de Assis...