Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post...
There were, however, many Dutch unit commanders who suffered from the same unbelievable quiescence and lack of imagination that later plagued the U.S. brass at Pearl Harbor. Disturbed by previous false alarms, they now simply ignored the warning by the Dutch High Command...
...Reserve. His attitude may have been a kind of proud echo. Twenty-four years before, his own Congressman father had denounced World War I with equal vigor (on the ground that it was a conspiracy of the "money trust" ruled by Eastern bankers) and had been similarly reviled. After Pearl Harbor, old rancors seemed lost in the community of defense, but Roosevelt refused to give him back his commission ("You can't have an officer who thinks we are licked before we start," said a White House aide). Lindbergh had to get into the war some other...
...fears sound absurd. The fact is that never before has the U.S. been so tolerant of dissent-especially in wartime. And that fact is all the more impressive when measured against the country's history. For dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point...
...assemble his show and visited 300 studios across the country, believes that the key trend emerging from the diversity of his exhibit is the artist's increasing rapport with and involvement in advanced technology. Larry Bell's clear, untitled glass boxes, for example, gleam like mother-of-pearl, thanks to optical coating methods developed by industry technicians. Many other works were assembled by technicians from artists' instructions or, like the Samaras Corridor, built by museum craftsmen working from the artists' blueprints...