Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money into everybody's pocket." He was Man of the Year again after the Congressional election in 1934, when "the voters' verdict was not a mere stamp of approval; it was a paean of acclamation"-and he was Man of the Year for a third time after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President, the leader of the nation in a deadly war of survival...
...other Northwest citizens talked of Art Ritchie's new project with wry humor. West coast hotheads have been hating the Japanese free ever since Pearl Harbor. To the confirmed haters, the news that henceforth there will be a slight fee just seemed to make it official...
...staff to the 6th Division, when he got his orders to Alaska. There was an immediate promotion to brigadier general in the assignment, and a task no good officer could have faced with overconfidence. Commanding a force that was never to go above 14,000 men until after Pearl Harbor, he had to fortify and guard a sparsely populated region one-fifth the size of the U.S., with a coastline nearly twice as long...
Close, But . . . The war which struck the U.S. at Pearl Harbor late in 1941 lapped perilously close to Buckner's domain in the following six months. In early June 1942, when the Japanese seized Kiska and Attu, enemy carrier-based planes attacked Dutch Harbor and troop transports bore down on the base. They turned away when land-based aircraft from Buckner's hastily constructed airfields struck at them...
...vision of the heart. To each other, the young man and the slavey become as beautiful as makeup artists can manage. Helping out with the spiritual atmosphere, there is also a housekeeper named Mrs. Minett (Mildred Natwick) who is gifted with second sight (a high wind makes her feel Pearl Harbor in her bones...