Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cruisers, destroyers and submarines would set sail from Japan for the Kuriles, then deep into the Pacific toward Hawaii. Shortly after 6 a.m. on Dec. 7, dozens of Japanese Zeros would take off from the carriers, head south and within 90 minutes sight the coast of Oahu -- and Pearl Harbor. Japan, its fortunes yoked with Germany's, was launched on the road to double suicide...
...recollections are part of our look back at one of the 20th century's watershed events -- the beginning of World War II. (A second installment next week will trace the war up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.) Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski spoke to John Borrell about his family's flight to Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler...
...sensitive, so ready to take offense. Although his parents were immigrants and he visited relatives in Manila and Taipei, this self-described "Chinese-Filipino-American, born-again-Christian kid from suburban Los Angeles" felt "scarcely more connection than the average white" between Asian life and his own. "I read Pearl Buck in high school and didn't see anything wrong. I still like Charlie Chan movies. The whole thing about being of Chinese descent seemed an interesting detail, as if I had red hair. But not everyone saw it that way." So Hwang embarked on Asian studies in an adolescent...
...Democrats carried with them the U.S. flag that few over the Capitol the day Pearl Harbor was attacked, in Rome after that city was liberated, and over the U.S.S. Missouri when Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender...
Seen from miles away, it looks like a giant pearl-gray dirigible hovering over the African bush. Up close, its true shape emerges: a sandy-beige concrete behemoth topped by a gargantuan dome and a copper cross that gleams in the relentless sun. Equally remarkable, the great basilica is built in post-Renaissance style and has two long arms formed by 128 massive Doric columns that reach out from the porch to envelop a 7.4-acre plaza paved with granite and marble. Has St. Peter's Basilica been magically transported from Rome to the heart of Africa? No, this...