Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among its great battleships were half a dozen 35,000-and 45,000-tonners, all completed since Pearl Harbor. In the carrier task force were half or more of the 27 fast carriers now in service.* There were schools of destroyers and fast-stepping cruisers. Over them, when the air strikes began, were swarms of Hellcat and Corsair fighters, Helldiver dive bombers, Avenger torpedo planes...
...many kings's, bowed out. His friends said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal honeymoon, the fractious days of WPA, the vindictive days of the 1938 purge, the bustling days after Pearl Harbor, and the days of high-policy travel when Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta became places of international decision...
Between wars he learned salvage techniques in U.S. navy yards, in China, in London, where, the winter before Pearl Harbor, he saw how British salvagers freed the Thames when bombed ships clogged the river. When the Normandie lay wearily on her side at a Manhattan pier, Sullivan mapped and got under way the job of righting...
...Assurance of Senate ratification of the new world charter (see below). ¶An informal vote of confidence from the U.S. public: the Gallup poll reported that 87% of U.S. citizens approve the way he has handled his job. (President Roosevelt's wartime high: 84%, right after Pearl Harbor.) ¶An important Cabinet shift...
...became a constitutional monarch in 1941, has found it even more difficult to maintain discipline over his glamorous family than over his head-hunting subjects. Despite his patient parental plaints that there are no legal princesses on Sarawak, his three daughters continue to be dubbed Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess Baba) married Wrestler Bob Gregory...