Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship was slightly strained in the early part of World War II when many Brazilians, among them Dutra (then Minister of War), were so impressed by the Nazi war machine that they were accused of being pro-Nazi. They shucked such views after Pearl Harbor and for the rest of the war, as in World War I, Brazil stood with...
Even on the jumbo or Texas-sized map of Texas, the cattle and oil town of Electra (pop. 7,500) is hardly bigger than a fly's off-hind footprint. But to its mayor, a hulking, oil-rich, ex-circus roustabout named T. Leo Moore, Electra is the pearl-handled, goldplated, diamond-studded axle of the universe. When the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway threatened to have its streamlined Texas Zephyr blow through Electra without stopping, Mayor Moore began to paw dirt...
...American teachers of democracy could not be .sure where their lessons would end. Once before the Japanese had acquired a veneer of Western progress. They had achieved mass education and mass production. They had learned to forge steel, to fly-and to bomb Pearl Harbor...
Strangers' occasional virtuosity cannot conceal its flaws. As a Cuban Gestapo man, Pedro (The Pearl) Armendariz gives a fine performance. But when he starts making bestial passes at Jennifer Jones while Garfield hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from...
According the article, Conant determined the future development of the bomb on the night of December 6, 1941, a few hours before the Pearl Harbor attack. "The best men...minds...scarce materials could be spared only for something of supreme importance...the importance of the decision was obvious. It fell to Conant to make...