Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army deaths were totaled 216,966, the Navy's 55,896; the National Safety Council announced that on the home front, since Pearl Harbor, 355,000 had been killed through accident, and 36,000,000 injured. The great songs of season were Till the End of Time, I'll Buy That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype...
When she minced into Pearl Harbor, just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...Church assured itself of an honest, fearless representative in a country brimming with touchy problems. Before Pearl Harbor, Bishop Hurley was the most outspoken interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. As early as the spring of 1941. he made enemies among fellow Catholics by labeling the Nazis the chief enemies of the U.S. and the Church, and attacking those who feared Communists more. Early in 1943, when the Army was faced with a shortage of Catholic chaplains, Hurley accused some of his fellow U.S. bishops of an "inability to face the facts...
...maintain is the power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world." Not even Theodore Roosevelt had suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur's army and air force in the Philippines. It implied a nation ever on the alert, ready to strike before it was struck...
...women who thought they knew how to bridge the perilous fission between these ideas met at Dublin, N.H. They were invited by four distinguished citizens: former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts; Grenville Clark, a New York attorney who did much to sell conscription to the U.S. public before Pearl Harbor; Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire (1911-13) and Bull-Moose friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas H. Mahony, a locally prominent Boston lawyer and internationalist...