Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
Stolidly, in the face of the President's confidence, he asked to be allowed to play safe, to withdraw the fleet from Pearl Harbor, base it on the Pacific Coast, and use it to defend the Western Hemisphere...
Reflection at a Distance. The Admiral went back to Hawaii. There, with the warm trade wind riffling papers on his desk, he drew up a gloomy (and prophetic) memorandum on the danger of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He never again saw or heard from the President...
Although the two had disagreed on many things, they saw eye-to-eye on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Their testimony gave the most intimate account yet told of the fated diplomacy of 1941 : August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force...
Over four crowded wires from the Sen ate Office Building, Western Union punched 25,000 words a day; the press as sociations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) filed six to eight thousand apiece. How many words poured into the radio microphones, no body stopped to count. Pearl Harbor was the biggest running congressional story since the 1933 Pecora banking investiga tion...