Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident on which the novel is based occurred in 1942, when the fearful U.S. was so busy remembering the threats and wrongs of Pearl Harbor that it busily forgot the rights of many Americans of Japanese descent. They were cruelly uprooted from their homes and arbitrarily herded together in relocation camps. In a shameful, repple-depple kind of limbo families were sundered and gentle spirits destroyed...
...another, more innocent day, God and country seemed to be solid and comfortable partners. To most of the nation, the second World War was a just cause, and when a chaplain at Pearl Harbor urged a Navy gun crew to "praise the Lord and pass the ammunition," it seemed appropriate that the slogan be turned into a popular song. But Viet Nam is a different kind of war, and clerical critics-including a few ex-chaplains -are beginning to question whether a minister in uniform can really be honest to God while remaining faithful to the Pentagon. This month several...
...military career people must feel pretty frustrated to find themselves blamed for failures that are manifestly the result of political constraints. The ironic part is that if we neglect our defenses and spurn our defenders, another Pearl Harbor may occur. Then public feeling will well up, and courting of our soldiers will once again be in style. As Rudyard Kipling wrote of the peacetime military man nearly 80 years...
Darting about on her chrome-festooned motorcycle in her self-designed uniform-white crash helmet and boots, tight black pants and leather jacket-she might be taken for a Hell's Angel auxiliary. Up close, Esther Winders gives no such false impression. The badge on her breast, the pearl-handled pistol and the can of Chemical Mace that hang from her hips, clearly label Mrs. Winders what she is and always wanted to be: a lady...
...nine innings of relief, senior Kalinowski has allowed no runs in five appearances. Manager John MacLeod said the right-hander had been the "pearl of the season...