Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier's Pay. At first, the enormous change in the Navajos' way of life did not work insuperable hardship. During the prewar years, many a tribesman worked on CCC projects. After Pearl Harbor, more than 12,000 got wartime jobs off the reservation, and 3,600 young men went into the armed services and sent their pay back home...
...help Peiping's 1,700 registered prostitutes execute their new duties, the police planned a month-long lecture course. Some of the girls railed at the hour set for the lectures. Said Red Pearl, of the Bright Star house, "Nine o'clock is very inconvenient. Our overnight guests are never gone that early in the morning...
Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell pulled the first trigger. In a broadcast and syndicated column, he fulminated: "The Third World War is already being fought. . . . We are losing it. ... When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
...worse than typical assembly-line job. A lot of technical competence, a certain amount of talent and a staggering amount of time and money have been marshaled into a quiet, polished frenzy about nothing whatever. The picture presents a forgivably languid Fred MacMurray as a pearl smuggler. He marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with...