Word: pea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pea-green paneled room at 10 Aurangzeb Road, Delhi, Jinnah this week criticized Churchill's speech as misleading, urged an immediate "provisional composite government...
Joseph Stalin stands behind a paper-littered work table. He is smoking a pipe and wears the rough clothes of a peasant soldier. Enter Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Special U.S. Envoy William Christian Bullitt. Churchill is wearing a seagoing cap and a short pea jacket; he is puffing on a long cigar. Bullitt is wearing grey striped trousers and cutaway coat with a dark red carnation in the buttonhole...
Oroya fever of the highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...
Faced with these dispositions, Douglas MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Chester Nimitz at Pearl Harbor, and all the other Allied leaders from San Francisco to Calcutta, had a tough decision to make. They had to guess what shell the pea was under...
...very interesting account of "Moving Day for Mr. Nisei" (TIME, April 6), stated in part: "Thus, last week, the first compulsory migration in U.S. history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley." I recalled a historical marker that I photographed near Pea Ridge Battlefield some years ago. Apparently Mr. Nisei was not the first...