Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the jewel woman stepped out onto the jammed platform, Pearl was three steps behind her. She walked steadily, one, two, three, then dropped to one knee and pulled the camera trigger...
...camera was longer and heavier than the first one. Under the Christmas wrapping, Pearl could feel that it had a trigger attachment instead of a string to click the shutter. She gripped the stock hard as the train clattered into the station...
Instead of a click, there was a blast which echoed down the great tubes. While Pearl stood frozen, people began running, yelling, and pointing to her Christmas-wrapped camera (which police later found to be two long wooden boxes with a sawed-off shotgun wired between). Slowly, stupidly, Pearl walked up to the dark woman who lay in a widening pool of blood...
...Rocco would not be wanting anyone. While his wife lay in a Manhattan hospital with her leg amputated, and Pearl remained in police custody, detectives combed the state for him. After five days they flushed him, crouching in a sleeping bag near a farmhouse in the Catskills. He opened fire with a German automatic. Moments later, Mr. Excitement was dead, with nine slugs...
Died. Admiral Osami ("The Elephant") Nagano, 66, who, as Japan's Chief of the Naval General Staff in 1941, issued the order for the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; while on trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal; in Tokyo. Said he of the Pearl Harbor attack: It "achieved far greater success than I had expected. . . . . I made no mistake...