Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again December 7 fell upon a quiet Sabbath. Sitting amid the strewn wreckage of the Sunday newspapers, many a man & woman remembered with a sudden pang how the news had tornadoed in from Pearl Harbor on an identical afternoon in 1941. On Dec. 7, 1947, millions of Americans still remembered the sense of shock, the surge of challenge...
Many also remembered something else: the feeling of scarcely admitted relief. On Pearl Harbor Day, the line between right & wrong had been drawn with the sharp definition of a bomb splinter. There had been only one possible course which Americans could accept without reservation. Last week, as 1947 drew to a close, many wondered if anything could ever seem so terrifyingly simple again...
...start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...
Written in the form of a letter to an old friend, Letter from Grosvenor Square tells a little of what was not said at that time. It is a simple, forthright account of Winant's work in London, from February 1941 to Pearl Harbor. It is a very good book, honest, unassuming, completely sincere...
...dinner Churchill was grim and silent. At 9 p.m. he asked Sawyers, the butler, to bring the radio to the table. It was a $15 portable that Harry Hopkins had given him. There was a burst of music as he tuned it; then the announcement of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Churchill jumped up and started out of the room...