Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...
...newly arrived white sea monkeys conquered Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...
...Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...
Died. Hideki Tojo, 64, Japan's Premier at the time of Pearl Harbor; by hanging; in Tokyo (see INTERNATIONAL...
...President and to the U.S. people, enactment of the law was a relief. Despite the triumphs of World War II, the U.S. had never quite recovered from its indignation over the disastrous lack of military coordination first exposed at Pearl Harbor. Now, it seemed, the law would at long last force the services to get together...