Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have got him out of Cleveland. He once waved a script at his writers and said, "This is all the talent I have, fellows." For it, he pays eight of them more than $450,000 a year. Thus each Hope joke is worth roughly the cost of a natural pearl...
...doctrines formulated by the first Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, and amplified by his successors. By these doctrines, Mormons have four sources of divine truth: the Bible, the "continuous revelation" granted to Smith and his successors, and Smith's two pseudo-Biblical works, The Book of Mormon and The Pearl of Great Price...
...trouble getting hired and fired by assorted other New York dailies. The New York Post cut him loose for not writing about pretty girls during the week after Pearl Harbor; Goldberg, who normally loves such assignments, churlishly refused on the ground that, considering the times, there were more important subjects to write about. On PM, the long-defunct intellectual tabloid, he was asked so many times to gather man-on-the-street reaction to stirring events that he once rebelled and interviewed 35 New Yorkers all named Hyman Goldberg. To his surprise, his story was a resounding success...
...Pearl K. Wise, the only other Councillor not seeking re-election, declined yesterday to expand on the statement she issued last July, giving poor health as the reason for her withdrawal from public life. Observers do not believe Mrs. Wise can win a third term, without the support of the Cambridge Civil Association, which she apparently alienated by her opposition to the Donnelly Field urban renewal project...
...provinces, printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur's return...