Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Reston began working for The Times's London bureau in 1939, the U.S. had not yet felt the shock waves of the Vietnam War; most Americans shared Reston's faith in America's innate goodness. The day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Reston wrote: "The United States went to war today as a great nation should--with simplicity, dignity, and unprecedented unity...
...weekend marked a low point in the continuing downward spiral of Cornell's basketball program. Second-year coach Tony Coma, whose claim to fame lay in coaching Earl "The Pearl" Monroe at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, announced his resignation for "personal reasons" Thursday, leaving Ithaca with a 7-38 won-lost record. Assistant Tom Allen stepped in as interim coach against the Crimson...
CTOC BENEFIT--Sat. Jan. 26 at the Blessed Sacrament School Hall, 12 McTernan St. (between Pearl and Mazazine), Cambridgeport, 8 p.m., $2 contribution...
...President of the U.S. as he vacations aboard his yacht. The would-be assassins are a cartel of cliches: a loudmouthed, cigar-chomping Westerner, an unctuous Middle European, a fatherly Ivy League type. The movie makes their plot a matter of as much concern and surprise as whether Pearl White will be cut loose from the railroad ties be fore the locomotive flattens...
...resulted in the black explosions of the '60s. No disaster, however, has been more visible from a distance-or caught people more off guard-than the energy crisis. The failure to head it off, despite loud and repeated warnings, may some day be considered America's economic Pearl Harbor...