Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass had split, and a 40-ft. tide of thick goo suddenly rolled like molten lava toward a cluster of homes-and toward the red-brick Pantglas Junior and Infants School, where some 250 youngsters between seven and eleven were just sitting down to class. Across the street, Mrs. Pearl Crowe heard the rumble and looked out of her window. "I saw a black mass of moving waste pouring steadily into the school, and part of the school collapsed. I was paralyzed." Ten-year-old Dilys Pope was in one of the classrooms. "We heard a noise, and then...
...Oldsmobile. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines after Pearl Harbor, the stage was set for another leap in the Marcos legend. Called to duty as an intelligence officer, 2nd Lieut. Marcos required only a few weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen...
...Fresh Egg. The only daughter of a wealthy rice broker in North Viet Nam and the wife of a civil servant, Mme. Xa grew up "studying like a man" in a house filled with rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
Every war needs a slogan--to rally the masses and pluck at their purse `strings. Something easy and original like "Remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine," and "Remember Pearl Harbor!" But so far, in the absence of any singularly memorable event in the Vietnamese war, the phrase epitomizing the spirit of the American fighting man has gone unspoken...
...Pearl Buck, on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement