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Word: pearled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese recognized Marshall's sincerity. In his own country and in a day of great military peril he had not hesitated to make similar sacrifices of "military efficiency" for the sake of democratic control. Not long after Pearl Harbor his staff had proposed far more rigid press controls. Marshall told them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES: Marshall's Mission | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Temptations of Peggy | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...bombs from hitting their targets. And just a few bombs, he feels, will be enough Before the start of World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest of powder magazines. Twenty thousand tons of TNT can be kept under the counter of a candy store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...Pearl of the Far East remained embedded in its chilly Siberian oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Cultured Pearl | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Japs hit Pearl Harbor, a breezy, hand-crunching Texan named Red River Dave (Dave McEnery) wrote himself a song, The U.S.A. Is Coming P.D.Q. Next day he wrote one called Bums Over Hawaii. For months thereafter, while the fit was on him, he wrote a song a day. Sample title: Fight for Your Country, Country Boy. He has had more than 300 songs published, gets about $100 apiece for them. Red River Dave thinks they were all good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fast Composer | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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