Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods, baked goods, flowers, etc. was TIME Inc.'s seventh annual Country Fair-an event that has come to mean a good deal to us here as a way of exhibiting our extracurricular handiwork to one another and having it judged. This friendly competition began the autumn after Pearl Harbor because so many of our suburban members had taken to raising Victory Gardens and wanted to compare their produce with that of coworkers. The first fair was warmly received, and the succeeding ones have been no less...
...flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again in a 30-minute formal Greek Orthodox service-in which the bridal couple wore wreaths of mother-of-pearl orange blossoms (traditional in the Greek Orthodox service). There was one terrible moment when Francis was threatened with a perjury rap (he had picked up the wedding license in August and had listed himself as single). To cap everything, the newlyweds missed their scheduled flight to Rio. The nation...
...boards or courts of inquiry have produced 40 volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...
Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...
...worship God and live by His spiritual values, the knowledge and infinite complexity of science are channeled by a wisdom beyond human capability . . . Then science gives us the material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...