Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power politics was infinitesimal as compared to today, and when the two oceans formed a reassuring barrier, the United States could afford to limp along with disorganized and duplicating intelligence systems. However, even before the nation became involved in the war, these agencies were failing. What actually happened at Pearl Harbor and in the months preceding that disaster is unclear even today, but there can be little doubt that poor intelligence contributed to it. During the war, the German breakthrough in the Ardennes is blamed largely on the fact that the Allied command was taken completely by surprise...
...admirers say that he is a political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote...
...proving grounds on Eniwetok was lifted last week. Congressional members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy were invited to fly out soon for new atomic tests. There were no further details. But knowing Hawaiians, who had watched the ships of Atomic Task Force Seven steam westward out of Pearl Harbor a month ago, guessed that initial phases of the tests might already be under...
...Barbara Ann Scott, Calgary, an overgrown (pop. 100,000) cow town at heart, had put on its best pearl-grey Stetson and its best Stampede air. Calgarians cheered her when she skated away with the Canadian Women's Figure Skating Championship, packed her four exhibitions at the Glencoe Skating Club Carnival. They gave her a civic luncheon attended by 400 fans and fitted her out with a complete cowgirl outfit...
...notice of the idealists then fashioning a new world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff of geographers and philologians, and a working force of 110 altogether. During the war years it naturally gave most of its attention...