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Pearl Harbor

noun as in sneak attack

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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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After training 30 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, he was eventually posted in March 1940 to the Oklahoma, based in Pearl Harbor as part of the Pacific Fleet.

In the period when Lindbergh made those statements, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his staff were assiduously planning an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor.

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

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