Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. What, actually, did the President's plan propose? Neither the President nor Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
Still unannounced are Pratt & Whitney's super-powered air-cooled engine, at which the services coyly hinted more than a year ago, Wright's secret power plant which has been in the works since before Pearl Harbor...
...Madame de Montluçon, who once showed Senator Daudier her low-necked Chanel dress, which crawled with "rather large pearl caterpillars." "Quite edible," said the Senator, "but I should have preferred to have the caterpillars served in a separate dish...
...Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...