Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your account of President Johnson's cavorting across the hills of Texas at speeds up to 90 m.p.h. while sipping a cup of Pearl beer, was, to say the least, disconcerting at a time when the nation is still adjusting to the tragic loss of President Kennedy...
KAREL APPEL-Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th. Appel pummels the canvas in violent combat with his images, beating his nudes into a submission that they mock with their startling audacity. At Jackson, 32 East 69th, he provides his candid figures with saxophones, pearl-handled pistols, and telephones for eyes, ears and mouths. Both through April...
...President of the U.S. flashed up a long Texas hill, swung into the left lane to pass two cars poking along under 85 m.p.h., and thundered on over the crest of the hill-squarely into the path of an oncoming car. The President charged on, his paper cup of Pearl beer within easy sipping distance. The other motorist veered off the paved surface to safety on the road's shoulder. Groaned a passenger in the President's car when the ride was over: "That's the closest John McCormack has come to the White House...
...nearly three years later, he proclaimed: "I have returned!" His utterances were by turn axiomatic ("In war, there can be no substitute for victory"), grandiloquent ("Though I am a Caesar, I rendered unto God that which was his"), or eloquently simple, as when he spoke at a cemetery near Pearl Harbor: "I did not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death." Nowhere did he seem to hold history more firmly in his hands than when, relieved of his Korean command in 1951, he stood before a joint session of the Congress...
...farmer's son with only a sixth-grade education, Osano has shown an uncanny ability to foresee and exploit opportunities. Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided...