Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year he was made a rear admiral. In 1941 he was sent to the Pacific. After the Battle of Midway, he became chief of staff to able Admiral Chester Nimitz, who said earnestly: "Nothing you can say about him would be praise enough." In an office overlooking Pearl Harbor he settled down to being Nimitz's right bower and helping to plan the Pacific...
...relaxation he listened to recorded symphony music. For exercise he walked as he had in boyhood, striding along at the regulation rate of 132 steps a minute. Once 208-lb. Rear Admiral Charles A. Dunn, an old classmate, agreed to hike around the foothills of Pearl Harbor. Dunn soon regretted it. His feet swelled and blistered. Still Spruance paced along, hour after hour, until Dunn finally asked plaintively if they could turn around at the next crossroads...
Father and son were both on missions at sea when the Japs struck on Dec. 7, 1941. They met in Pearl Harbor the following day. Edward said with brash confidence: "We'll blast the Jap Navy out of the Pacific in a week." Spruance unrolled a map, gave his son a lecture from which Edward retired a sobered young man. Edward, a lieutenant commander and a good officer, last week was awaiting his own submarine command...
Whose Ally? In the official U.S. books the Dictator rates as a sturdy Central American Good Neighbor; he was just ahead of Salvador's fallen Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in declaring war on Germany after Pearl Harbor. More than 200 Germans, who grew much of Guatemala's coffee, had a big stake in its export trade, have been shipped to the U.S. for internment. German properties have been impounded for the duration. A special tax on enemy business eats up the profits. But most Guatemalans do not take Ubico's anti-German gestures...
...creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...