Word: pearle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAPANESE PEARL shortage is expected because of $19.5 million worth of damage from tidal waves generated by Chilean earthquakes. High seas destroyed oyster beds, disrupted the three-year growing cycle needed to turn a grain of sand into a pearl...
...dear hearts and gentle people would think back to Pearl Harbor, they might recall that the surprise blow was struck midst tea-and talks aimed at achieving a common ground of understanding. Such men as Powers and the agency they represent deserve our overwhelming gratitude for undertaking the perilous task of reducing the element of '"surprise." The idiots in this instance are the Pollyannas who, in blind faith, would close their minds to the possible parallel of tea and vodka...
...butterflyish as airtime approaches. Don't we, Mr. Montgomery?' . . . meaning Robert Montgomery, the President's fried and null director . . . 'you have a punchy line in your speech,' we said. 'The one about having to be suspicious about enemies, who used peace negotiations as Pearl Harbor fell' . . . 'I'm afraid,' the President said, 'the speech is too long, 22 minutes' . . . 'Oh. no. it isn't!' we told him. 'This is the night that people cannot get enough of what you have...
Died. Richard John Talsh, 73, onetime editor of Cottier's Weekly and Asia Magazine, founder and president of the John Day Publishing Co., whose stable of authors included his wife. Pearl S. Buck; after a series of strokes; in Hilltown...
...prefer a little embarrassment to another Pearl Harbor...