Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tojo, Matsui, Doihara and Muto were led into the prison courtyard while the other three waited in a Buddhist chapel. Frost was forming on the courtyard ground, and the air was misty. The four old men stood erect in G.I. fatigues. Matsui, shaking with age and cold and palsy, raised a quavering cry: "Tenno heika banzai! (May the Emperor live 10,000 years!)." The other three quaveringly took it up: "Banzai, banzai, banzai...
That is just what Canadian cabinet ministers and diplomats have said again & again, but seldom as effectively, after pondering Canada's (and North America's) strategic position in the age of long-range bombers, rocket-firing submarines and atomic warheads. To be prepared for "the only possible enemy-Communist Russia," says Baldwin, Canada should give "complete and entire cooperation" to Britain and the U.S. He skips lightly over Canada's ability to support the program of cooperation that he sets out in definite terms...
...Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered him at all it was as a minor beam in France's 18th Century age of enlightenment. Last week, Denis Diderot was having his innings...
...best jokes are family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...
...about to enter Dogpatch, an average stone-age community, It nestles in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills...