Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese military effort into conventional U.S. military forms. The whole Kennedy-McNamara-Johnson doctrine of slowly stepping up the levels of force was a failure. The enemy was always able to adapt and respond. The fantastic complexity of the U.S. command structure, the mystifying extra layer at Pearl Harbor, the tremendous logistical and bureaucratic component in our forces in Viet Nam -all of these deserve rigorous review. So do the American doctrines of airpower...
...friendly nation into fixing a value for its money that Washington in effect would decide. Finance Minister Fukuda dismissed that talk as a zatsuon (grating noise). A Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed an embargo against shipping scrap iron and oil to Japan. Nobody on either side of the Pacific," he said, "would be idiot enough to wish for a replay of that, except on the screen." Officially the Japanese line remained as stated recently by Fukuda...
...remnants of isolationism persisted for a decade after the war ended, as a score of Senators (most of them Midwestern Republicans) sought unavailingly to defeat such undertakings as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO. But for all practical purposes, the doctrine died with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Senator Arthur Vandenberg wrote in his diary: "That day ended isolationism for any realist." The postwar efforts to keep the flame alive were merely, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. put it, "the last convulsive outbreak of an old nostalgia...
Nothing to celebrate tonight? Consider all of the unbirthdays that the nation's mayors, Governors, and even Presidents have provided. If you missed cherishing May 1 as Give Your Girl a Pearl Day, there is still ample time to observe International Play-Your-Own-Harpsichord Month, which is also National Tavern Month. Have a Bach beer...
...together, half the sky of clouds came from the north until a great curve of cirrus broke off and wheeled an are beyond the moon and Orion through the whole east and far to open south the mountains of Sangre de Christo, in less than pain after sunset, are pearl and shadow pinon burned sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel was more an expression of personal faith...