Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore, they apparently knew that they would be unable to sustain a war for more than two or three years. The militarists in Tokyo who wanted war prevailed partly because the U.S. insisted at a crucial juncture in the 1941 negotiations that Japan pull all of its troops out of China. The Japanese took "China" to include Manchuria-which they had occupied in 1931 and renamed Manchukuo. In fact, the U.S. meant to exclude Manchukuo. Had that point been clear, Toland asserts, war would have been postponed-or avoided...
...Administration's liveliest hostesses by trying to make her parties more like those of the Democrats, who are generally conceded to have more fun. "I read about those Democratic soirees in the papers," says Ann Ward. "Like that one Liz Carpenter gave the other day for Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey ?and I think 'How different. They really are different...
Morning is about freshness, birth, starting new. Aurora, goddess of dawn, advances from a distant pearl-pink horizon, and a newborn baby lies squirming on a carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes
...20th Century-Fox epic of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tora! Tora! Tora! [Oct. 5]: T'll make you a little bet that the original cast pulled off the attack for a lot less than $25 million. Oh well, you can't win them...
...alive at that moment can forget the resonance of President Roosevelt's address to Congress. For the U.S., the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor was the detonator of World War II, the unofficial announcement that history once again was attempting suicide...