pearl harbor
珍珠港,明珠港,珠海,珠江港
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- : a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- : any significant or crippling defeat, betrayal, loss, etc., that comes unexpectedly.
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There are no documents that come anywhere close to saying that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor in advance.
John Toland’s 1982 book described a “Seaman Z” who picked a message about the attack on Pearl Harbor and passed it out to his superiors and it was never worked on.
One key example came in the 2000s, when nonprofit organizations near Pearl Harbor unsuccessfully tried to purchase the lands they had long been leasing from the Navy.
Legislation that Congress passed in 1999 and 2006 authorized the Navy to sell or lease land on Oahu to pay for redevelopment of Ford Island, a historic Navy base in Pearl Harbor.
This church property near Pearl Harbor was among eight parcels in the area that the Navy sold to nonprofits leasing the lands.
“If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.
It is, Zelden said, “unthinkable” that Scalise would harbor these views.
Rights activists like Boledi, the Iranian Baluch dissident living in Sweden, harbor some of the same concerns.
I harbor a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, just like anybody, and I welcomed the challenge.
He continued to harbor core conservative beliefs, but started to believe they could be achieved “through liberal structures.”
This he did, erecting at the harbor a beautiful cross bearing the arms of France.
Whenever he heard of one coming into harbor, he hastened to the shore, and closely watched the disembarking.
"The Seorita is a pearl of prudence and discretion: do whatever she desired you," said Alphonse.
I must admit that there is some excuse for you; the pearl of Andalusia is undoubtedly ravissante.
It must have been the window-panes, for he was anxious to get the most beautiful mother-of-pearl he could find.