Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party will not begin until 12:15 a.m., Dec. 8, "so people like Mr. Knight won't be able to accuse me of celebrating Pearl Harbor...
...damned annoying." Leatherneck's Career. Like many an other famed Marine (e.g., Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...
...speech in Chicago she reviewed the President's statements about the danger of war from 1937 ("quarantine") to Pearl Harbor and charged: "He is the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it. ... The shame of Pearl Harbor was Mr. Roosevelt's shame...
...Before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese colony in Peru numbered some 20,000. In 1942, Peru cracked down. Jap businesses were closed or transferred to Peruvians. Many Japs were deported to the U.S. It might be harder to deport the Black Dragon...
Negroes are coming to realize that the Negro dilemma is not confined to the South, that the old Negro idea of Northern freedom is a "myth." Since Pearl Harbor they have watched Army and Navy segregation policies carry Jim Crowism into towns and villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front...