#december

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#basically #before #december #everybody #fired

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. ↗

— Leon Askin

#came #date #december #dream #end

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. ↗

— William Bartram

#admirable #appeared #banks #bloom #contemplated

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#certified #college #december #electoral #electoral college

If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? ↗

— Howard Koch

#december #new #new york #time #york

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#crossed #december #delaware #evening #general

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#came #december #during #fbi #i

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#book #came #december #decline #first

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#articles #assembly #december #discussion #draft