Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation was not doing much worrying. This did not mean that the average citizens agreed with Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, pre-Pearl Harbor leader of the America First Committee, who concluded that Europe was finished, who suggested that 20 to 30 million Britons, Belgians and Hollanders should move elsewhere, and proposed to write Europe off except for some "charity." There was endless grumbling, particularly in the Midwest, about U.S. exports of goods and foodstuffs. But millions in the U.S. were resigned to the idea that something had to be done in Europe-and that...
Philip spent hours along the Moray Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...
...duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back to the U.S. on the Gripsholm at the end of 1943, penniless and broken in health, to learn that her husband had been killed in action...
...them products of wartime research. During World War II no plane saw combat which was not on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...