Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
...Armstrong contributed many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...
...given breaks and a spark. In 1941, the powder barrel went off, and behind All-American Center Chub Peabody, the team made up in defense what it lacked in offense, catapulting the Crimson into the big time. Dreams of a football renaissance in Soldiers Field ended, however, with Pearl Harbor...
...history of the drama that I think I'll take," he replied. "You read 75 plays, but it's worth your while." The fellow walked away without a word, and Vag, grinning broadly, leafed through the little book until he came to geography. "The topography of Boston Harbor," he read. "A car is desirable, but not..." Vag tossed the catalogue into the gutter and knifed his way through the premature football...