Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...Pearl Harbor, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. ("Rowboat") Matthews said he was off on a tour of the Pacific "in order to better equip myself for performance of my duties...
Considering the U.S.'s deeds in the world since Pearl Harbor, if not its words, such questions sounded a little silly to most Americans, yet the first authoritative Republican voice to be heard gave the worriers cold comfort. Hardly had the ballots been counted before Ohio's Robert Taft, leading man of the G.O.P. comeback, talked as though he intended to take apart the framework of North Atlantic security and examine it piece by piece. "Can Europe really be defended? How many American soldiers will be required?" he asked. "There are many things on which I have...
...After Pearl Harbor, Bob decides to sign up for active service. Jim, as usual, is a sluggard. He, too, seems to have acquired a wife, despite his civvies. "You're in a tough spot, all right," Bob says, leering. "But it's different with me. I go in as an officer and I'll make enough money to support my wife and baby!" Later Jim is drafted as a private, while Bob is commanding men. "It wasn't any time at all before I got my captain's bars...
When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...