Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...
...Them Rant." In Washington's confusion after Pearl Harbor, Stilwell almost got the assignment which would have developed into command of the North African expedition. If the acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...
...dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend-Lease liaison officer and a member of President Roosevelt's five-man Pearl Harbor investigating committee...
...weeks before the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, the nation's defense industries were just recovering from near-paralysis; its key coal mines had been strike-shut. Last week, at another uncertain moment in history, some U.S. citizens rubbed their eyes. Were they dreaming, or were the country's mines shut again...
...numerous moral spirochetes in the Communist mind. The Reds understand very clearly the importance of military power, but they prefer not to use it if they can reach their objectives by propaganda, conspiracy or blackmail. The Communists are not likely to unify the U.S. with a military Pearl Harbor...