Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internationalist, Armstrong contributed many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...
...given breaks and a spark. In 1941, the powder barrel went off, and behind All-American Center Chub Peabody, the team made up in defense what it lacked in offense, catapulting the Crimson into the big time. Dreams of a football renaissance in Soldiers Field ended, however, with Pearl Harbor...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...
...morning of Pearl Harbor, Henry "The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and nominal head of the Secret Service, rushed to the White House like a county sheriff in pursuit of chicken thieves. "Peering through the White House windows in search of enemy aircraft," he was all for ordering machine guns issued to the Secret Service staff, including the office girls...
Greedy Manhattan can gulp up a convention crowd as easily as a sword swallower taking an aspirin tablet. But last week, as 250,000 members of the American Legion poured in for their biggest national convention since Pearl Harbor, the Big City cleared for action. It moved everything movable out of hotel lobbies, boarded up plate-glass windows, ordered its cops to be especially paternal, and then, as resignedly as Cleveland, Miami or Omaha, waited for the first big bang...