Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expert staff which moved with Nimitz was at once the measure of his past achievement and a largely contributive cause of his continuing success. His chief of staff now is Sock McMorris, most noteworthy of the officers salvaged from Pearl Harbor. In charge of war plans is Fuzz Sherman, advocate of the fast task force after Pearl Harbor. But the boss of his staff is, as always, Nimitz, the fleet's human gyrocompass, always on the true plane, always on course for Tokyo...
...make the political, economic, social and cultural development of the Indo-Chinese union one of the principal aims of her . . . reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc-is the French Empire's most precious colony...
...Minister Georges Bidault about "internationalized bases." He had received a bland reply: "French bases are at Allied disposal now. For the future what we do with our bases is between us and our colonies. If bases are internationalized, it must be reciprocal, which would also include such places as Pearl Harbor...
...Bottom. Fourteen months later, the Hornet was at the bottom of the ocean. So were the Lexington, the Yorktown and the Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...
...there was nothing to indicate that June 1, 1943 was an auspicious day for naval air forces and a turning point in the Pacific War. But on that day high-ranking officers, one after another, trooped out on the top "deck" of the concrete headquarters building at Makalapa, overlooking Pearl Harbor, focused their binoculars on a grey shape across the loch, by Ford Island. The Essex, first of America's post-Pearl Harbor battle carriers, had arrived to take her place in the battle line. Soon her sister ship, now named Yorktown instead of Bon Homme Richard...