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When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
Doug Stanton
War
Book
Writing
World
School
First
Met
Before
Action
Despite
High
Components
Rarely
High School
About
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Fact
Mentioned
Delivered
Had
Major
Island
Boy
Ship
Textbooks
Survivors
Story
While
Little
Them
Bomb
Last
World War
World War II
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?
Doug Stanton
War
History
World
Men
Down
Think
Summer
Finally
States
Worst
Would
Disaster
How
Go
Wonder
Survived
Begins
Michigan
Experienced
Lake
Warm
Sea
Naval
Each
United
United States
World War
World War II
I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.
Douglas Brunt
Today
War
Day
Thanksgiving
Terrorism
World
Perspective
Seen
Live
Tree
State
Crisis
Berlin
Parade
Lighting
Missile
New
Safer
Safer Place
Comfortable
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Terror
Rockefeller
Years
Up
Close
Square
Times
Than
Times Square
Close-Up
Going
New Years Eve
Manhattan
Center
Place
Eve
World War
World War II
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
Douglass North
War
Myself
Peace
World
Become
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Indeed
Lone
Invaded
Had
Supporter
Supporters
Over
Since
Because
Opposed
Shifted
June
Soviet
Soviet Union
Communist
Union
Suddenly
Beliefs
Found
World War
World War II
When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
E. Joseph Cossman
Service
War
Business
World
Wife
Three
Daughter
Everywhere
States
Total
Small
Badly
Supply
Idea
Returned
Years
Items
Bank
After
Export
Europe
United
United States
Assets
World War
Needed
World War II
After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
Edward C. Prescott
War
Government
People
World
Inflation
Honor
Value
Promises
Those
Pressured
Pension
Fell
Were
Lot
Debt
Hold
After
Europe
Fully
Assets
Funds
World War
World War II
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
Eisaku Sato
War
Peace
People
World
Progress
Prosperity
Made
World Peace
Promote
Through
Since
Am
Years
Contributing
Efforts
Japanese
Japanese People
Mankind
Convinced
Strenuous
World War
World War II
Preserve
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
Eisaku Sato
War
Time
History
People
World
Soil
First
Own
Variety
Horrors
Involved
First Time
Were
Subsequently
Modern
Experienced
Experiencing
Modern Warfare
Warfare
Japanese
Japanese People
International
Eventually
Disputes
World War
World War II
The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.
Eisaku Sato
War
World
Worse
Bore
Seeds
Could
Factors
Instability
Contain
Within
However
Been
End
Did
Established
Order
Which
Them
Certain
Certainly
International
World War
World War II
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
Elliott Abrams
War
World
Country
Nation
Starts
Relatively
Libya
New
Concept
Period
Modern
After
Really
World War
World War II
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Eric Betzig
War
Music
Time
Creativity
Innovation
Problem
World
Sense
Earth
Solved
Because
Sound
Eras
Optimism
Listen
Maybe
Just
Romance
Different
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Much
Different Things
Things
World War
World War II
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
Eric Liu
War
Air Force
World
Pilot
Air
Seeing
General
Pictures
Force
Him
Hearing
Up
Nationalist
Grew
Stories
Chinese
Grandfather
Uniform
World War
World War II
If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II? And if I had, would I have done anything about it? I also started to wonder: how does a culture slip its moorings?
Erik Larson
War
Culture
World
Living
Corollary
Slip
Berlin
Possibly
Would
About
Horrors
Could
Had
Also
Does
How
Been
Foreseen
Wonder
Done
Anything
Holocaust
Started
World War
World War II
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.
Frances Hesselbein
War
Saying
Me
Strange
Training
World
Husband
Long
Young
Crew
Our
Air
Saying Goodbye
Married
Photographer
John
Seemed
Johnny
Writer
He
Volunteered
Combat
Goodbye
Exempt
Editor
Off
Began
After
Sent
Newspaper
Naval
Navy
Assignment
World War
World War II
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
Frank Carlucci
War
World
Post
Election
National
Took
Months
Go
End
Germany
Us
World War
World War II
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
Friedrich St. Florian
Today
War
Time
World
Vision
Values
Country
Own
Sense
Live
Think
State
Say
Collapse
High
Morality
Purpose
Had
Clear
Clear Vision
Highly
Fair
Traditional
Traditional Values
Historical
Ambiguous
Very
Really
Standing
Many
World War
Fractured
World War II
Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
Gary Herbert
War
Time
Challenges
Generation
World
Met
Our
Our World
World War
World War II
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
George McGovern
War
World
Way
Record
Frequently
Refer
Did
Any
Flamboyant
World War
World War II
Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
George Vecsey
War
Time
People
World
Money
Had
Sport
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Got
American
Grew
After
Bigger
Popular
Why
Zone
World War
World War II
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
George Wald
War
You
Trials
World
Before
Nuremberg
Crimes
Stated
Tell
About
Something
Principle
Were
Committed
Committing
Interesting
Held
Vietnam
Many
World War
World War II
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
Gore Vidal
War
Great
World
Money
Lasted
Exactly
Great Nations
Had
Powerful
Most
Also
Most Powerful
Least
Were
Years
End
Five
America
Nations
Hegemony
World War
Damaged
World War II
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
Gore Vidal
Depression
War
People
World
Made
Rich
States
Those
Wink
Had
Name
Prosperous
Undergoing
Govern
Been
Years
Very
Managers
Which
Republic
Who
Many
United
United States
Dozen
World War
World War II
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Gough Whitlam
Service
War
Me
World
Veterans
Men
Three
Seen
Active
Ministry
Composed
Entirely
Joined
Had
Caucus
December
Who
Many
Each
Appointed
World War
World War II
I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
Harry Browne
War
World
Remember
Old
Single
Year
Enough
Magazines
Had
Most
Were
End
Articles
After
Old Enough
Japanese
Newspapers
Defeated
World War
World War II
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
War
Great
Technology
Architecture
World
Made
Strides
Earthquake
Characteristics
Only
Allowing
Advanced
Advanced Technology
Tall
Buildings
Traditional
Were
Modern
After
Japanese
Infusing
Expressing
Resistant
World War
World War II
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher
Depression
War
Great
Women
World
Nine
Nine-To-Five
Once
Saw
Great Depression
Unmarried
Jobs
Boring
More
Between
Mostly
Repetitive
Five
Subordinate
American
Again
Working
Number
World War
World War II
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