Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese moppets who could scarcely toddle at the time of Pearl Harbor, the seeds of democracy were sprouting fast. From the city of Fukuoka, the Kyodo News Service, Japan's largest press asso ciation, reported last week...
Threat of Stalemate. In developing this theme The Absolute Weapon's text refutes the rather silly title. The atom can and will be fitted into military and political strategy, like all other weapons. A surprise atom-bomb attack could make Pearl Harbor look like a mere raid, but continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most...
...guarantees of good faith before the U.S. signs any inter-American defense treaty with him. But Messersmith sniffed success: the Argentine Government had finally got round to raising the state of siege and restoring the civil liberties that had been in suspension-with two brief exceptions-since right after Pearl Harbor...
Last week Allah was good to him. Sixty thousand Parisians, the biggest sports crowd since the war, squeezed into Colombes Stadium to see Ben, the Black Pearl, and his fellow Frenchmen in red, white & blue outfits play the heavily favored English team. Ben stole the ball constantly, executed short delicate passes over English heads, did more work than any three teammates combined to beat England...
F.D.R. without Applesauce. As the book begins, this global Rover Boy is tête à tête with brackish Pierre Laval, who confides: "Money ... is like toilet paper, when you need it you need it bad." With this pearl rattling in his diplomatic pouch, Lanny leaves for London. He has to get a wiggle on because Upton Sinclair wants him 1) to take in the blitz, 2) to get back to F.D.R. in time to ram through the destroyer deal. He does both, easy as falling off a green baize table, and Roosevelt admiringly admits: "I need...