Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg changed his mind, as the people were changing theirs. The change was perceptible even before Pearl Harbor: Vandenberg never had the Chinese Wall mentality of a Wheeler or a Nye or a Bennett Clark or a Ham Fish. The change became marked at the Republican conference at Mackinac, where Vandenberg, once he was sure that G.O.P. internationalists had no intention of selling the U.S. down the river, found that actually he was not far away from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with...
...should the postwar Navy be? Last week (in testimony published by the House Appropriations Committee) the Navy gave its own answer: a whopper. The Navy said it hoped to have a peacetime fleet three times as big as the pre-Pearl Harbor Navy...
After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...
...support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come. The strength of the opposition and the political daring of what he did, could be measured by the one-vote margin in the House, when the draft came up for extension four months before Pearl Harbor...
...globe-girdling game. On the thousands of route miles which the U.S. has strung around the world, some eight domestic lines, Pan Am, Pan American-Grace and American Export Airlines have flown the astronomical distance of 2,581,903,999 passenger miles on overseas routes since Pearl Harbor...