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Pearl Harbor

noun as in sneak attack

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He first saw the ship in October 1941 resting at anchor in Pearl Harbor, and what a beaut — long and towering, capable of 20 knots, with a complement of 1,200 sailors.

The Navy serviceman, killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, was identified decades later.

After the Japanese navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, a tsunami of racist propaganda washed across the United States.

The law has been used three times in American history: during the War of 1812 and World War I and after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.

A month or so until Election Day, I feel this is Pearl Harbor again but only worse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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