Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Marshall had borne up well under the sustained pressure of his big jobs. He did not smoke, drank very little, took good care of himself. But last, summer, he found that he tired easily; he submitted to his first thorough physical checkup since Pearl Harbor. The doctors found cysts in one kidney. An operation would be necessary...
...Japanese captured Nanking, Chiang moved the government upriver to Hankow and fought on; they captured Hankow, he moved to Chungking. When the ports were gone, Chinese coolies carved a Burma Road across the mountains. When the Japanese cut off Burma, after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. flew amounting load of war supplies "over the Hump...
...ignominiously failed, to take his own life. During the trial he had shrewdly defended himself and his country. Last week, in his faded army jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, he did not look like the toothy, maniacal symbol of Japanese frightfulness that U.S. cartoonists had made of him after Pearl Harbor...
Sometime at today's game, a fellow in a sweater is going to run his lips over the mouth of a bottle of rye. Another follow with white shoes and a red-head is going to pour four chilled martinis complete with pearl onions, Chances are that six characters wearing straw bats will also consume a case of been during the three hours they occupy their Soldiers Field seats...
Fifty years ago chances are you would have left the field with a black eye; now you're satisfied with a popsicle. This is a classic with modernized, 1948-model color. Once it featured mustache cups and megaphones, raccoon coasts and pearl-handled umbrellas. Now it's got television, and Dixle Belle, and martinis--chilled--complete to the onion...