Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Gladys de Polignac of France's famed champagne family, Pommery (she married into it; her American mother married Le Petit Parisien's publisher), arrived in the U.S. on a Red Cross hunt for dental supplies, posed with a cluster of store teeth that was something new in costume jewelry. Item on her shopping list: four million false teeth...
...some ways occupied Japan will resemble the Japan that Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry opened to the world in 1853. No longer an empire, sprawled over the western Pacific and the Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave him a dinner and the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
Lieut. Jackie Coogan, 30, Hollywood's onetime "Kid" who grew up to marry Betty Grable (and be divorced by her) was released from the Army after four years' service, mostly with glider troops. Acquired in that time: the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and a Presidential Unit Citation. Lost: more hair...
...barracks sally-ports, sudden as buckshot, burst cluster after cluster of one of the best-disciplined groups of young men in the world. Uniformed in grey and white, studded with shiny brass and topped with towering, plumed "tarbuckets," they fell in quickly, wheeled sharply, flowed in one trim mass onto the broad green Plain that tops the granite-cliff shores of the Hudson at West Point...