Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard for me to realize that we've passed the third anniversary of Pearl Harbor. ... I lost my time sense, I think, about the time we rounded the north turn of the training cycle in the California-Arizona desert. There have been a good many hours when, hanging between wakefulness and oblivion, I have allowed myself to consider the rest of my life. These are some of the tentative conclusions I have reached...
Last week came news that hard-riding Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., in his moment of need, had put aside his pearl-handled pistols, taken up a pen, and appealed to a Higher Authority. Wrote he: "Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee . . . to restrain these immoderate rains. . .. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory . . . and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen...
...pearl-grey haystacks in the gloaming
Oldendorf's heavyweights, the armored tip of the spear, were days ahead of the other groups. They included the "ghost ships," veteran battleships raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, which had fought so well at Surigao. His jeep carriers opened an air umbrella as he bored past Mindoro into the South China...
...Monaghan, blooded at Pearl Harbor, veteran of the Aleutians and Marianas; only six survived from...