Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar with the Costa Brava of northeastern Spain, the first impression the picture makes is its truth to nature. The dawn light of Cadaques, where Dali spends six months of the year, shines through every part of the vast canvas, and the Santa Maria floats on a mother-of-pearl sea precisely like a Cadaques fishing boat at dawn. Her sails, however, are inventions. The transparent topsail shows the silhouette of a combined crow's-nest and Holy Grail...
Eastward over Siberia, and then out over the Pacific, soared a Soviet ballistic missile last week, headed for a target area 1,000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Next day an announcement from Moscow echoed round the world: Soviet ship-borne scientists stationed in the area had determined that the missile traveled 12,500 kilometers (7,762 miles) from its launching site and landed less than two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the precalculated target point...
...Pearl Harbor Days. In Manchuria, Kishi found himself among friends and relatives. His uncle ran the Manchurian railways; Kishi brought over Steelmaker Aikawa to take charge of factory construction, and became closely connected with General Hideki Tojo, commander of the Kwantung army. Returning to Japan in 1939, Kishi could say complacently: "Manchurian industry is my development. I have an infinite affection for this industrial world I have created." Today, Kishi's lost "creation" provides arms and economic muscle for Red China...
...again resigned. But less than six months later, the Commerce Minister was out of a job and replaced by Kishi in the new Cabinet formed by his old friend, General Hideki Tojo. Kishi had at last reached ministerial level-just in time to participate in the decisions leading to Pearl Harbor...
...Natural black pearls and natural canary diamonds are rare. A black pearl four-tenths of an inch in diameter is worth up to $7,500 compared to $350 for a culture white pearl dyed black. A large canary diamond (not to be confused with off-color or cheap "yellow" diamonds) may bring ten times the price of a white stone. Diamonds can be synthetically colored by atomic radiation or dyed by a vacuum process similar to coating a photo lens...