Word: pearle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duty." She graduated from Tulane University magna cum laude, took with her a Phi Beta Kappa key and her Spanish professor as a husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back to the U.S. on the Gripsholm at the end of 1943, penniless and broken in health, to learn that her husband had been killed in action...
...them products of wartime research. During World War II no plane saw combat which was not on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...
Like most military men, Colonel McCutcheon believes that offense is the best defense, but he recognizes the fact that the U.S. does not plot "Pearl Harbors." Therefore, he says, the U.S. must have missiles that can rise at a moment's notice and intercept enemy missiles before they strike the nation's vitals...
...brought in an era of draft calls, which depleted our 'typesetting staff, and of crisis journalism with its bad news breaks and late news. The late Adolf Hitler was forever making a major move on weekends. Pearl Harbor happened on Sunday and V-J Day was on a Tuesday. Inasmuch as our deadline is midnight Monday, interruptions like these meant that the 'typesetters, who are always the last to leave, shared with the rest of the editorial department the headaches of late closings...
...left the post hustling. Gordon Richards' jinx, which has kept him from winning England's greatest race in 22 attempts, was with him again. Tudor Minstrel showed briefly in front at Tattenham Corner, flattened out badly, finished fourth, out of the prize money. The winner: French-owned Pearl Diver, a 40-to-1 shot...