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Japanese military censors delayed that message for 10 hours, so it was almost midnight on Dec. 7 in Tokyo when U.S. Ambassador Joseph Grew sped with it to the Foreign Ministry. It was past 3 a.m. -- and Fuchida's bombers were within sight of Pearl Harbor -- when Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, in full diplomatic regalia, reached the Imperial Palace. He found the Emperor listening to his shortwave radio. Togo read him the message and then the response that the government had already written for him. It said that peace was the Emperor's "cherished desire." This would "do well," Hirohito...
Once on the airfield, M.S. pretended he was getting out of his car to board the presidential plane, then immediately climbed back into the car, which instantly sped off for Rutskoi's plane, two or three miles farther away. So when Gorbachev, dressed in his cardigan, got out of the car and went to the airplane, those lieutenant colonels were standing with their rifles at the ready until he disappeared inside. Watching this scene, I thought that there is still an officer's honor in our army...
...relief for the people of the republics in their deliverance from the old life, a certain fascination and some fear about what lay ahead. The event was unprecedented. Never before had a fully matured empire, one superpower of the world's only two, torn loose from its foundations and sped off, at such velocity, on such a journey...
...like Harvard's finale--a 3-2 loss to Clarkson at the Boston Garden in a snoozer--the overtime was bound for disappointment. In overtime, Engineers forward Bruce Coles, the burly, long-time Harvard nemesis, sped into the Harvard zone on a two-on-one break. He fed linemate Joe Juneau in the crease, and the rest was history...
...hundred fifty fans watched the first running of the Giganteus Stakes. The contestants, all 3-in.-long tropical species, sped along the track. In a photo finish, Hot to Trot II won the cup by a labrum...