Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JERRY LEWIS SHOW (ABC, 9:30-11:30 p.m.). Tonight's guests are Singer Pearl Bailey and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson...
...Admiral Harry Felt's reinforced concrete command post high above Pearl Harbor, top U.S. officials last week gathered for the first exhaustive policy study of South Viet Nam since the coup that toppled the Diem regime...
Bypassing for a moment the observation that Pearl Primus, a big-bodied, strong, supple woman, is a perfectly lovely dancer, I must also note that her performance last night was just the slightest bit disappointing. Her demonstration class at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon, by comparison, was continuously compelling and satisfying; she seemed more at case, more smiling, more dignified, as she began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than...
Blood on the Wall. Much of Connally's bluster was for show, and rarely was he deeply, genuinely angry. One such occasion was on Pearl Harbor day. Riding home from a White House meeting on the night of Dec. 7, he was in tears of rage as he told a newsman: "That goddamned Frank Knox, that idiot, that fool. He told us only a week ago that the Navy was ready for anything. Now it's lying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor." As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as an admirer of Woodrow Wilson...
...company dredged the opening channel through the reefs of Pearl Harbor in 1902, eventually deepened it enough to change Pearl from a little coaling station to one of the world's great harbors. Walter Dillingham used the muck dragged up from the sea to fill in low, marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with...