Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm all over when he thinks about the December 7 Washington meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at which a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles will be signed. Asked about the significance of the summit's being held on the 46th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Reagan recently said: "I thought to myself, wouldn't it be wonderful if Pearl Harbor day would become superseded by the day that we began the path to peace and safety in the world...
Franklin Roosevelt labeled Dec. 7 as a "day which will live in infamy." Last week Ronald Reagan expressed the hope that it will soon be remembered not as the date in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but as the "day that we began the path to peace and safety in the world." After a week of bafflingly mixed signals from Moscow, the beleaguered President was able to announce that on Dec. 7 he will finally begin a long-awaited summit conference with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington...
...widely praised in the Third World for his attacks on Western "imperialism." Sankara dressed in camouflage outfits, with a red beret, and wore a pearl-handled revolver at international meetings...
...SURPRISE JAPANESE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR...
Which really has had more of an effect on Americans' lives -- a major military blow like Pearl Harbor or some subtler event like the spread of television? Pearl Harbor or the automobile? Pearl Harbor or the computer? Pearl Harbor or the building of the welfare state? Pearl Harbor or the rise and fall of cheap energy? Pearl Harbor or the birth control pill...