Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace had hit the services like another Pearl Harbor. But, as War Secretary Stimson pointed out, there were "2,250,000 trained Japanese soldiers in the home islands alone, and an equal number" in other Pacific and Asiatic territory. The U.S. must disarm these men, and ships that nose into Japanese islands must be combat-loaded...
...entered the atom race in the fall of 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt appointed an informal "Advisory Committee on Uranium." It was a small project until the Nazi panzers roared over France. Then the world was struck by a terrible urgency. On Oct. 11, 1941, nearly two months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to Winston Churchill, offering British nuclear physicists a plan to work in the U.S. Churchill accepted. The U.S. and Britain were partners...
Gags & Secret Arrests. The state of siege was born nine days after Pearl Harbor. Argentina's late President Ramon S. Castillo, deciding on "prudent neutrality," needed gags to still pro-Allied sentiment. He muffled the press, banned most political activity and public assembly...
...smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
...Displeased. President of Dartmouth since 1916, 67-year-old Dr. Hopkins has been outspoken in his opinions before. In 1930 he was one of the first U.S. college presidents to decry Prohibition, and was strongly interventionist before Pearl Harbor...