Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More for Peanuts. "In such a contest we have abundant ammunition. We do not need to bring up the military catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scientific catastrophe of losing our atomic secrets. Nor do we need to dwell on policies that led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the plight of our defenses when the invasion began, nor the handcuffs put upon our conduct of that war. We need not even refer to the tragic loss of China, nor the surrender of positions of freedom throughout the world. We can also ignore at the moment the wasteful...
Festooned with paper streamers that almost gave the scene an air of capitalist merriment, Poland's billiard-bald Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and his pearl-neck-laced Actress-Wife Nina danced without much abandon. Their restrained revelry did little to heat up a state ball on the first night of this year's Warsaw Carnival...
...early plans, he found himself looking out over a spacious patio or Roman atrium, a sort of immense Pompeian inner court, to be used as a dining area, with three huge, gold-colored saucers overflowing with vines and ferns suspended at varying heights, and with mother-of-pearl light globes, which seemed to float, for illumination. It was a sight fit for a maharajah's eyes; said Industrialist Hanisch: "Tears started in my eyes when...
...remnant of the Old World, the pushchart markets grew in the eighties and nineties, brought over by Poles, Russians, Chinese, Italians and Spaniards. Mott and Pearl Streets, Blake Avenue and Union Street became national boundaries; here was Warsaw, there Naples, and Shanghai was only two blocks from Kiev. The only border guards were streetlights, but international travel was infrequent...
...minority of four Cambridge Civic Association councilors may benefit from the disagreement among the Independents and succeed in electing one of their number. If they have their way, they will probably elect the city's first woman mayor, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise or Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler...