Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to tell you there is a tremendous revolution on in this country. ... It is a mass movement by the citizens who are displeased with the many mistakes now being made by the Administration. They are also convinced that the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and since Pearl Harbor in the allocation of war supplies are not above critical examination...
...answer was not immediately discernible. The ball game was inevitably won by the Yanks, 3-0, mostly because Hank Borowy refused to give the Red Sox a peek at the ball in the pinches. The performance was similar to pre-Pearl Harbor baseball...
...last that it would not have to fight had gone into the war on a dollar basis. On the theory that it could buy its way out of trouble, the U.S. was throwing its wealth and production on the side of the Allies when the Jap struck at Pearl Harbor...
Last week Dictator Martínez surmounted the worst crisis of his career. His people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...
...visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa, Bessie, Rebecca and Fishel-were in the U.S. Ten grandchildren were either professional musicians or on the way to that calling. Isaac's favorite son is Mischa Mischakoff, who earns about $25,000 a year...