Word: pearling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patrolman John Daley had been dispatched to break up a gang of 12 boys and two girls on the corner of Pearl and Erie Streets. When they refused to disperse, Daley asked the name of one of the boys. He was told that it was "none of your business." The 32-year-old patrolman put his hand on the boy's shoulder, and then was jumped by a number of the others. Three held his arms behind him and one began methodically punching the officer in the face and body...
...HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger remembers Pearl Harbor just long enough to launch John Wayne, Patricia Neal and other heroic types into several exciting tales of World...
...that Pentagon officials have uncovered Walter Lippmann's unwisdom on the 1947-49 Greek crisis-"My God, Walter would have given away Greece too!" [May 14]-they would do well to pursue their researches further back, to the days before Pearl Harbor, and in a more immediately relevant area, Asia. They would discover that Mr. Lippmann consistently opposed American aid to China in its life-and-death defense against Japanese aggression, insisted that the United States' vital interests were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled...
...Southwest Texas State College isn't exactly what you would consider a "prestige school"-but that one of its graduates now occupies the White House. The inference in your story on college admissions [May 7] is that you can get a good education at a small school. This pearl of wisdom doesn't seem to have impressed the group of "Ivy League rejects" that hangs out at our house. The favorite topic of conversation at present seems to be, "What school are you transferring to next year...
...girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow's weeds over her six-guns, she romps through one of the zaniest train robberies ever filmed, a throwback to Pearl White's perilous heyday. Putting the final touches on a virginal white frock to wear at her own hanging, she somehow suggests that Alice in Wonderland has fallen among blackguards and rather enjoys it. Happily, Cat Ballon makes the enjoyment epidemic...