Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annapolis, Tripoli, Mobile Bay, Santiago, the Philippine Sea, Norfolk and San Diego, the pride of the Navy grew. In intense patriotism, dedicated Navy officers held two words to be all but synonymous-the Navy and the Nation. They upheld one to defend the other-and, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...Galloping Backward." Indignantly, the Democratic Party took up the challenge. With a pearl-grey fedora planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman went down the line for the Fair Deal, with occasional speechwriting assists from old Roosevelt Speechwriter Judge Sam Rosenman...
Before leaving, the garrison of 80,000 Nationalists blew up the Pearl River bridge, damaged the city's power plant, set fire to airfield installations. Then it broke into two fleeing parts. The bulk moved into the hinterland where the Reds had not yet penetrated. A smaller group headed toward the sea and ships that would carry them to Hainan and Formosa...
...takes part in the first carrier-landing experiments, marries a buddy's widow, and is exiled to a desk in the Canal Zone after pleading aviation's case too violently at a Washington reception. Eventually he gets back on a carrier, and he is on the spot at Pearl Harbor when the shooting starts...
...rest of their story sounds like a Pearl White thriller. When the group woke up in the morning they were covered with three inches of snow, and spent most of the day edging down the face. Then they started on the road back home--a seven-mile ice field called the Illecilliwaet Neve--through a blinding snowstorm and with only two cans of Spam and a handful of prunes for food. They were on it for 28 hours, and just had enough strength to effect rescue when one of the students fell twenty feet into a crevasse...