Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matters were reversed-Russia holding the secret, producing a daily increasing number of atomic bombs . . . announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper function...
...Robert Conway and the New York Daily News, which he represents, think there is no hunger in Europe today [TIME, April 1]. Conway ate well in black market restaurants in England, France, and Italy. He was never so well fed in America since Pearl Harbor, he reports; therefore, no one starves in Europe. . . . Is this what complacent America wants to hear, while a half-billion people starve...
...biographer said that Ada Rehan's sense of comedy shielded "her love life* from vulgar comment." Her seagoing namesake in World War II never learned the trick. Rusty and listing noticeably, the S.S. Ada Rehan hung on her chains in Shanghai Harbor last week while drunken voices rose from her decks. In sea men's bars along Blood Alley, comment was vulgar...
Like most present-day preachers, fiery, 71-year-old Dr. Morrison does not confine his preaching to theological or strictly religious concerns. In 1930 he tub-thumped in the Century for Prohibition, in 1940 he came out against a Roosevelt third term. Before Pearl Harbor, the Century was "non-interventionist," afterward "supported...
...Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...