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  • Though I believe Pearl Harbor itself would have passed by them tonight, intent as they were on devouring the manioc.†   (source)
  • The true objective was the total destruction of al Qaeda and the leader who had engineered the infamous attack on the Twin Towers - "the Pearl Harbor of the twenty-first century," as the president described it.†   (source)
  • Some Americans, the same kind I thought would have deserted at Valley Forge or surrendered after Pearl Harbor, said we might just as well give up on space.†   (source)
  • Born inside the fences of a Japanese internment camp in Manzanar, California, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Sato was a toughened survivor who had never forgotten the horrors of war, or the perils of insufficient military intelligence.†   (source)
  • By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring.†   (source)
  • 1941 December 7: Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.†   (source)
  • How old were you at Pearl Harbor?†   (source)
  • He slapped them good, taking a patriot's revenge for buddies lost at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • He thinks of Pearl Harbor, just under ten years ago, he was in New York that day as well, and the news seemed to shimmer in the air, everything in photoflash, plain objects hot and charged.†   (source)
  • I drove south out of Phoenix until I was on the Pearl Harbor Highway, as Interstate 10 is called as it nears Ira's reservation.†   (source)
  • The whole continent is in shock about the Pearl Harbor bombing.†   (source)
  • It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • About as well as Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Even I who read Time magazine from cover to cover every week was unprepared for Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Kennedy once noted that "the only two dates that most people remember where they were was Pearl Harbor and the death of President Roosevelt."†   (source)
  • There were still, out there, handfuls of committed Pearl Harbor theorists.†   (source)
  • Two of them had enlisted right after Pearl Harbor, and one had gone to work at the Sparrows Point Shipyard, and a couple more had been drafted.†   (source)
  • "Manuel," said Prof, "as Adam pointed out, our strategy must be to antagonize them into striking the first blow, the classic 'Pearl Harbor' maneuver of game theory, a great advantage in Weltpolitick.†   (source)
  • It was like the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor again.†   (source)
  • Right after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Reminds me of Pearl Harbor Day.†   (source)
  • Just before Pearl Harbor—Mr. Field went on in his quiet instructive tone—the Federal government opened bidding among fabricators of molded plastic for the manufacture of this dinky object, a bare two inches long, irregular in outline and containing at one end a squiggly bulge which had to fit into a similarly shaped aperture with absolute precision.†   (source)
  • I was flabbergasted when the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor brought us into the war at the end of 1941.†   (source)
  • He attempted to report this to Pearl Harbor in a signal but got no reply; he carried on, the radioactivity increasing as he neared the Philippines.†   (source)
  • They were buried in the cemetery in Honolulu, joining the men killed at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • More troops were arriving every day at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • "It's just like Pearl Harbor all over again," she said.†   (source)
  • Based on these results he's inducted into the navy to help replace those lost at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • "After Pearl Harbor," he said to her, "my father buried all of this."†   (source)
  • The Japanese are attacking all over the place, not just Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • There were always military planes crisscrossing the skies above Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • For most of the day, Pearl Harbor was a sea of fire.†   (source)
  • Who else was crazy enough to bomb Pearl Harbor?†   (source)
  • There was a huge U.S. military base there called Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • He walked off the Gila River reservation and out to the Pearl Harbor Highway.†   (source)
  • Papa already knew the car he'd put money on before Pearl Harbor had been repossessed.†   (source)
  • The Japanese in a predawn surprise attack have destroyed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been the indignation after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • I haven't gone after mackerel in over a year" "What do you think of the attack on Pearl Harbor?"†   (source)
  • It happened exactly a year after the Pearl Harbor attack.†   (source)
  • And leaving this morning for Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • He became Sergeant Strank two months after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Pearl Harbor just snipped it off, stopped it from becoming whatever else lay ahead.†   (source)
  • From the back row a correspondent asked, "When's the next boat to Pearl Harbor?"†   (source)
  • This was as strange, as awesome, as mysteriously unnerving as Pearl Harbor had been.†   (source)
  • Before Pearl Harbor America had looked across the Atlantic for an enemy.†   (source)
  • Mama yelled at him, "What is Pearl Harbor?"†   (source)
  • Ira enlisted in the Marines nine months after Pearl Harbor, when he was nineteen.†   (source)
  • We have full information on Pearl Harbor and on the approaches to Seattle.†   (source)
  • On the Monday after Pearl Harbor there had been no runs, and no panic.†   (source)
  • We're all right for Pearl Harbor, but they don't ask us to go there.†   (source)
  • I guess we'd take a look in at Pearl Harbor while we're there.†   (source)
  • At Pearl Harbor they had learned practically nothing.†   (source)
  • Mother says while she was giving birth to me, there was a big uproar, with the announcement that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • I'm your worst fear—you saw what we did in Manchuria, you remember Nanking, you can't get Pearl Harbor out of your mind.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of Navy Fleet Imaging, Pearl Harbor Shane Patton was replaced at the last moment in the SEAL team's Operation Redwing.†   (source)
  • In less than two hours over Pearl Harbor, Japan badly wounded the American navy and killed more than 1,400 people.†   (source)
  • The company that had employed him before the war had been liquidated right after Pearl Harbor and there was no job for him to return to.†   (source)
  • He announced that on New Year's Eve a public dance would be held under the slogan "Remember Pearl Harbor—It Could Happen Here!†   (source)
  • George Moznette and James Carringer, who had spent New Year's Eve with Louie, joined their crew at the beachside airstrip at Barking Sands on Kauai, preparing to lead a three-plane training run over Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Then we remembered our own father, who had been taken in for questioning in his bathrobe and slippers on the night of Pearl Harbor, and we felt ashamed.†   (source)
  • "The transmitter station went on prearranged war alert status immediately upon news of the Pearl Harbor attack, " added Ensign Clawson.†   (source)
  • While thousands of men would be sought later, this preliminary list was composed of those accused of the worst crimes, including list-topper Hideki Tojo, mastermind of Pearl Harbor and the man on whose orders POWs had been enslaved and starved, and Masahuru Homma, who was responsible for the Bataan Death March.†   (source)
  • This was back in December, right after Pearl Harbor, when they were still living in the white house on the wide street in Berkeley not far from the sea.†   (source)
  • He remembered, too, his father's face, and the sword his father kept inside a wooden chest in the days before Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • One thing he'd definitely miss was the sound of the bells that rang out every hour from the battleships anchored in Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • In light of this, the Review points out that those of Japanese descent on this island are not responsible for the tragedy at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • "These people seeking union with the Greater Life," argued Hatsue, "are the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • And then he saw it in the distance — what looked to be an enormous flock of gray birds flying toward Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko's adult life when she felt inconsolable.†   (source)
  • 13 Hatsue Imada was standing in the foyer of the Amity Harbor Buddhist Chapel, buttoning her coat after services, when Georgia Yamashita's mother told the people gathered there the news about Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Everything is Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Not after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • He thought an attack on Cuba would remind the world of Pearl Harbor—an opinion mirroring that of JFK.†   (source)
  • Generally speaking, Japanese evacuees have developed into most efficient beet workers, many of them being better than the transient workers who cared for beets in southern Alberta before Pearl Harbor…… Facts about evacuees in Alberta?†   (source)
  • On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Auntie Braxton suffered a massive stroke and was rushed to the hospital by ferry in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • Part I — "What Is Pearl Harbor?"†   (source)
  • It served as a premilitary training experience for some three million boys, many of whom would flood into the armed services after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • We watched and waited, and when the boats were still about half a mile off the lighthouse, a fellow from the cannery came running down to the wharf shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • —THOMAS PAINE ON THE DAY JAPANESE BOMBS surprised the sailors at Pearl Harbor there was a six-year spread among the flagraisers-to-be.†   (source)
  • The confiscators were often deputies sworn in hastily during the turbulent days right after Pearl Harbor, and these men seemed to be acting out the general panic, seeing sinister possibilities in the most ordinary household items: flashlights, kitchen knives, cameras, lanterns, toy swords.†   (source)
  • What is Pearl Harbor?†   (source)
  • I'll repeat that…President Roosevelt says that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii from the air.†   (source)
  • In late January the huge fleet moved slowly out of Pearl Harbor, forming a convoy seventy miles long.†   (source)
  • Then, deciding land was too risky for investing either time or money, he turned to the ocean, started fishing out of Santa Monica, and did well enough at it through the late thirties that by December of 1941 he had those two boats, The Waka and The Nereid, a lease on that beach house in Ocean Park, and a nearly new Studebaker he had made a down payment on two weeks before Pearl Harbor was attacked.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, described by some as "our new Pearl Harbor," we saw an unfortunate readiness, on the part of many, to assume that all Americans of Middle Eastern background were suddenly suspect and should somehow be held accountable for these crimes.†   (source)
  • Along with almost five hundred ships, theirs stopped at Pearl Harbor for a final liberty before battle.†   (source)
  • President Roosevelt said in a statement today that the Japanese have attacked the Pearl Harbor…Hawaii from the air!†   (source)
  • "I can never forget them," he wrote to his parents from Pearl Harbor, carefully embroidering the fiction of a voluntary return.†   (source)
  • After disabling the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces thrust southward toward Australia, overrunning Wake Island, Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, and what is now Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Then they had to see that their dispatches made it aboard a plane; after that they could only hope the material would reach Navy press headquarters once the aircraft landed at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • She discovered the AP story datelined "Pearl Harbor" about Rene coming home, which had reported: "There are six men in the historic photo—five Marines and one Navy hospital corpsman."†   (source)
  • The flagraising photograph signaled victory and hope, a counterpoint to the photos of sinking ships at Pearl Harbor that had signaled defeat and fear four years earlier.†   (source)
  • Robert Leader, who later served with John Bradley in Easy Company, recalled his youthful indignation on that shocking Sunday afternoon: "We were so mad at the Japanese for bombing Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • When nearly two hundred Japanese bombers arrived over Manila, ten hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, they simply obliterated this fleet, which sat in convenient clusters on the tarmac.†   (source)
  • The United States, having been surprised at Pearl Harbor and then raked in battle after battle by the onrushing forces of imperial Japan, has finally stabilized and gathered its strength.†   (source)
  • While the boys trained and retrained, their colonels and generals plotted strategy according to specific orders they had received from Washington at a secret conference at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • The shocking interruptions started at 2:25 P.M. John Daly of the NBC Red was on the air first: "The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by air!"†   (source)
  • As it happened, this flag—which at ninety-six by fifty-six inches was a good deal larger than the one now planted on the mountain—had been found in a salvage yard at Pearl Harbor, rescued from a sinking ship on that date which will live in infamy.†   (source)
  • In the 1,364 days from Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender, with millions of Americans fighting on global battlefronts, only 353 Americans were awarded Medals of Honor, the nation's highest decoration for valor.†   (source)
  • And so things went, until finally the only way that one could determine that a stream had once flowed through these dry precincts was by looking at that sign beside a bridge on the Pearl Harbor Highway that promised a "Gila River."†   (source)
  • At a Thanksgiving dinner at our family home in 1975, I was only too happy to enlighten my father and the assembled family as to the "real" reason we fought Japan in World War II: American insensitivity to Japanese culture and FDR's severing of their oil lines forced Japan—an industrial beached whale—to attack Pearl Harbor in self-defense.†   (source)
  • Hearing nothing that sounded immediately alarming for Fort Repose, he reminded Henrietta that nothing drastic had occurred after Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • One day, knowing that I had done some writing on military subjects, he asked: "What do you think would happen if the Russkies hit us when we weren't looking—you know, like Pearl Harbor?†   (source)
  • Always before, important events and dates had been marked in memory with definite labels, not only such days as Thanksgiving, New Year's, and Lincoln's Birthday, but Pearl Harbor Day, D-Day, VE-Day, VJ-Day, Income Tax Day.†   (source)
  • As he had suspected, there were three numbers issued after Scorpion had left Pearl Harbor before the outbreak of the war, that he had not seen and that no one in the ship had seen.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no point in risking the vessel in those waters any longer than was necessary; they took their readings and set course a little to the east of south till they found warmer water and less chance of ice, and then southwest towards Hawaii and Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • When Lieutenant Sunderstrom had had time on his hands at Santa Maria all that he had found to do had been to read The Saturday Evening Post, and they could think of little more useful that an officer on shore could do at Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • Also Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • After Pearl Harbor its subject matter seemed as inappropriate to the times as the shriek of bagpipes.†   (source)
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