Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chopping in the field. Warren County. Hog-killing time. Hinds County. WPA farm-to-market road worker. Lowndes County. Saturday off Jackson. With a dog. Madison County. With a baby. Hinds County. With a chum. Madison County. Home. Claiborne County. Home. Pearl River. Home. Jackson. A slave's apron showing souls in progress to Heaven or Hell. Yalobusha County. Ida M'Toy, retired midwife. Jackson...
...mildly, colossal. Winds begins in the Washington of 1939, in the mind of Commander "Pug" Henry, an upright WASP of the old school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first battleship command, the U.S.S. California, blasted...
...trauma of Pearl Harbor led directly to the establishment of the wartime Office of Strategic Services and, in 1947, the powerful Central Intelligence Agency. Today the CIA, with a budget believed to be over $500 million, has 15,000 employees in Washington and several thousand agents abroad. Moreover, the CIA is but one of nine major U.S. intelligence-gathering organizations,* though...
...American soil occurred just a week before the official publication of a startling new book that proclaims him a major war criminal. Japan's Imperial Conspiracy (Morrow; $14.95) charges that Hirohito, far from being a mild and unworldly figurehead, personally supported and even encouraged the attack on Pearl Harbor. The main reason he escaped hanging was that General MacArthur needed his symbolic authority to maintain order during the Allied occupation of Japan...
Under Compulsion. In January 1941 a brilliant naval strategist named Yamamoto communicated to Hirohito a plan for a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Because strict secrecy was imposed, even War Minister Tojo knew nothing about the plan until after he became Prime Minister, two months before the attack. "Hirohito alone stood at the top of the mountain," Bergamini writes. "He alone had full access to army planning, navy planning." When it finally came time to decide, Hirohito called in his Lord Privy Seal and said: "Instruct Prime Minister Tojo to proceed according to plan...