Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today's sole survivor of this scene on Dec. 6, 1941 had been no more than part of the background. But he had listened carefully. Last week, as Commander Schulz, soon to become executive officer of the battleship Indiana, he told the story to the Pearl Harbor Committee...
...great powers, the U.S. had kept its generals and its admirals most effectively fenced off from the pastures of statecraft and diplomacy-and its diplomats farthest away from the maneuver grounds. The results, at Pearl Harbor, and in North Africa and Italy, had sometimes been disastrous, sometimes scandalous. Last week, the State, War and Navy Departments agreed at last to cuddle up a little closer...
...counter bearing her size, was handed a paper bag containing a pair of stockings, and hurried on. Ten cash registers, each manned by two cashiers, clanged like tocsins. By nightfall 26,000 customers had carried off 26,000 pairs of nylons and not one woman had pulled a pearl-handled revolver from her handbag...
...From Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, Pratt found few secrets that censorship had kept from Germany or Japan, "but [it] succeeded beautifully in concealing the name of the commander who asked for reinforcements to quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena Amanda Bell Groves, 34, whom he met in England when she was chauffeuring dignitaries as a Motor Corps member; he for the third time, she for the second; at Mitchel Field...