Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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We debated the future of the world at the Harvard Council for Post-War Problems, followed the war in the Pacific, rejoiced at the D-Day landings, mourned President Roosevelt's death and celebrated V-E Day in Harvard Yard. When the atom bomb dropped, we did not agonize over...
DIED. LEWIS COMBS, 101, Navy admiral who helped found and direct the famed "Seabees" construction battalions in World War II; in Red Hook, New York. The Seabees built the docks and airstrips that made the vast U.S. Pacific campaign possible.
--Heavy MOSQUITO INFESTATIONS are expected this June in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Great Lakes, Southeast and New England regions. The winter's wet and wacky weather is why.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Days after declaring an unprecedented $3 billion in sanctions against Beijing for product piracy, President Clinton said Monday that he planned to renew China's trade status as a Most Favored Nation. Extending MFN trade benefits is not a reward for good behavior, said the President, but the...
Michael Kelbaugh, 31, had already put in a long day on a job that millions of teenage boys would kill for--play-testing video games for Nintendo in Seattle. But he and half a dozen colleagues were happy to stick around late one night two weeks ago until a certain...