Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birch went to China as a missionary in 1940, and was caught there by Pearl Harbor. In 1942, as he was trying to find a way to enlist, the war literally dropped in on him. He was taken one night by a native to a man who had fallen out of the sky. The fallen: Lieut. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. Birch led Doolittle and a group of the survivors of the Tokyo raid to safety, then joined the unit that later became General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and began a remarkable career in air combat intelligence. Wrote Chennault...
...against the election-year were Councilors John D. Lynch, T. Trodden, Thomas N. , and Alfred E. Vellucci. In were Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 Councilors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo Pearl K. Wise, and Cornelia...
...left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...
...situation. Wandering restlessly through the White House one day, Kennedy muttered: "This is the worst mess the Eisenhower Administration left me." Three weeks ago, Kennedy asked his military chiefs: "Who runs this area for us?" Days later, the U.S.'s Pacific commander, Admiral Harry Felt, flew in from Pearl Harbor by presidential request, accompanied by two high-ranking U.S. military advisers to the Laotians. "Mr. President," said Felt, pointing to pock-marked flip maps, "the rebels are spreading just like measles." Supplied by Soviet airdrops averaging 45 tons daily, guided and cadred by the leathery Communist North Vietnamese...
Despite last-ditch efforts by Councilors Pearl K. Wise and Alfred E. Vellucci, and attorney Phillip Cronin '53, the Council voted not to amend the plan and thus to downgrade the controversial area from residence A-2 to residence C-1 and C-2. The former category allows only for one single family home per lot, while the latter embraces multi-family dwellings up to 85 feet high...