Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doing is staking out their position for negotiations, but I would observe that their timing is extremely poor." There was no mistaking the reactions of Congressmen with large automotive constituencies. Said Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan: "The continuing Japanese attack on our basic industries is another Pearl Harbor. The time has come to close America's door to the flood of Japanese imported products." Michigan Congressman John Dingell feared that Uno's statement could portend "a devastating blow to the auto industry...
According to Heilbut's debatable thesis, after Pearl Harbor the German Americans were thought of as just one more group of aliens. After World War II, the McCarthy period seemed to strike an ominous and familiar chord. Mann, who had found in California his Eden, came to dismiss it as "an artificial paradise," America as a "soulless soil." Einstein complained that Americans, shortchanging their idealism, were not American enough. Psychologist Erik Erikson once wrote that only in the U.S. could Freud's prescription for human dignity, Lieben und Arbeiten (love and work), be realized. But he became "increasingly...
...Cardiff's ornate city hall, the smiling woman in the smart blue suit and two-strand pearl necklace was among friends. "We regard you," gushed the local chairman, "as the finest leader this country has had since the days of Winston Churchill." Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 57, savored the roar of approval, whipped out a copy of the Labor Party manifesto and held it aloft. "A member of Labor's shadow cabinet described this as the 'longest suicide note ever penned,' " she declared gleefully. "If the British people were to put their signature...
...worth $1 million. Presented to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna by Nicholas II in 1914, the 3⅝-in.-high egg is made of intertwining gold belts and platinum mesh set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, quartz and garnets. The surprise inside is an oval plaque of gold, pearl and enamel on which are painted the profiles of the five royal children, all of whom were to be shot, along with their parents, by the Bolsheviks...
This is an historical and personal footnote to the Editorial and Dissenting Opinions on the John J. McCloy Exchange Scholarship. Right after Pearl Harbor, friends of mine in what was then the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service asked me to come to Washington to use what little influence I might have to prevent the expulsion of the West Coast Japanese Americans. These friends were social scientists, students of public opinion, cognizant of the loyalty of the Japanese Americans to the United States, and also of the mounting pressure on the West Coast--a combination of greedy landowners, jealous of the more...