Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadowy outlines of order would not be clear or put to the test until the children grew up. But it was a hopeful week. In London the Council of Foreign Ministers was patching up Europe (see Conferences). The liberation of Asia had signally failed to produce explosions and cataclysms gloomily prophesied a month ago (see The Liberation...
...downtown hospitals, including that of Keio University, the city's second largest, were gone. Holy Mother (Catholic) Hospital still stood. So did St. Luke's (Protestant Episcopal), largest U.S. mission hospital in the world. The Japanese had renamed it "The Greater East Asia Hospital" and had removed its golden cross...
Japan's royal family had a busy week, informing ancestral ghosts of what the Nippon Times delicately referred to as "the termination of the war of Greater East Asia...
...Pound Their Heads." A flurry of political activity followed. The Political Association of Great Japan, the nation's totalitarian party, prepared to disband-and to reorganize under new colors. The East Asia Federation, a patriotic society, made ready to enter politics; its leader seemed likely to be fanatical Lieut. General Kanji Ishihara, a retired Kwantung Army sword-rattler who helped plot the Manchurian adventure...
Many a scientist promptly divided Europeans into: 1) the "superior" dolicho cephalic northern and Mediterranean races, and 2) the "inferior" brachycephalic or mesocephalic Central European (Alpine and Dinaric) races, supposedly the product of mixture with invading brachycephalic hordes from Asia...