Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans at war, Hideki Tojo epitomized all that was evil in Japan's ruling military clique. As the commander of the Imperial Army and Prime Minister (1941-43), he personally ordered the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that provoked U.S. entry into World War II. This week, as Japan prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of its unconditional surrender in that war, the memory of Tojo has all but faded to most Americans and even to many Japanese...
During his years in power, Tojo never deigned to discuss affairs of state with his wife; she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor on the radio. But on the day of Japan's surrender her husband was more communicative. By then, because of military setbacks, he had been dismissed as Premier, had lost his general's rank and had been ousted from other government posts. They listened together to the radio announcement by Emperor Hirohito. As she remembers, Tojo received the news calmly and took another cup of coffee and a cigarette, his only luxuries, to help...
...From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, Delia Femina
Peace: Vietnam Referendum 70 Committee is sponsoring a picnic-cookout from 5 to 10 p. m. on July 1 at Dana Square, Cambridge (bounded by Pearl, Magazine, Lawrence and McTernan Streets). Music and food to build a movement for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam...
...GAVE YOU PEARL HARBOR." The line never made it into the campaign, but Delia Femina revived it as the title of his new book, and it is now raising nervous laughs in the twitchy precincts of Madison Avenue. First recorded on tape, then edited by Sometime Author Charles Sopkin and published last week by Simon and Schuster, the book is an earnest effort by Delia Femina to buttress his reputation as the Peck's Bad Boy of advertising. At 33, he heads his own agency and is one of the more abrasive of the young "creatives" who have risen...