Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent to Ivy League colleges, Brooke attended Howard University, where he cut an enviable swath with the coeds and was president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest Negro social fraternity. Because of an early inclination toward medicine, he majored in chemistry and zoology, graduating in 1941. On Pearl Harbor day, he was called into the Army as an R.O.T.C.-trained second lieutenant, was assigned to the all-Negro 366th Combat Infantry Regiment. He saw combat action in Italy, won a Bronze Star in 1943 for leading a daylight attack on a heavily fortified hilltop artillery battery. Because...
...sanity and soundness that runs in calm contrast to the instability that has characterized the 18 years of Communist China's post-revolutionary history. After all, it is a scant quarter-century since Japan itself went wild and sent its aggression spilling across the Pacific from Singapore to Pearl Harbor. That adventure cost Japan 1½ million lives and taught a proud nation the humbling lesson of pragmatism...
...sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach to government. It was vitally important for me to know just what the masses aspire to and think; very important to live among the masses...
...When Japan moved into the region in 1941, thereby gaining a commanding geographical position in South-east Asia-to say nothing of a wealth of rubber resources-the U.S. considered the situation threatening enough to freeze all Japanese assets. Japan's countermove came just four months later-at Pearl Harbor...
...addition to crackling prose of a caliber rarely heard on TV, the Xerox Corp.-sponsored program is livened by the affecting personal reminiscences of Pearl Buck, among others-and the crisp editing of David Wolper Productions...