Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoes. Gradually, as the repatriates talked to friendly representatives from home prefectures, looked at Japanese newspapers and books, attended reorientation lectures on the new government and the social structure, the crust of fear and suspicion softened; tight, drawn faces began to relax. Smiling repatriates in new grey clothes crowded around local exhibits in the prefectural exhibition building. One happy man saw his child's drawing on display. Another found his family's picture in a large album and burst into tears. Said one wide-eyed, thin-faced soldier: "They never told us it would be like this...
...managed to filter through a police cordon. They cleverly planted Red flags in the hands of the official greeters. When the repatriates' train pulled in, the welcome was transformed into a frenzied Red rally. Bewildered clubwomen stood disconsolately amid unnoticed cups of cold tea as the demonstration swept around them...
Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...
...Madrazos, there are rewards far higher than this substantial income (about $162,000 a year). These rewards approach a peak when a breeder sees the carcass of one of his bulls being dragged around an arena, amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...