Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's Masako Katsura, 38, is the first woman ever to try for the world three-cushion billiard title. Masako is cue-tall (5 ft.) and light as chalk (96 Ibs.). But her skill can make three ivory billiard balls do nearly everything but rattle Banzai! She will need all her wizardry for the next fortnight to beat out her nine topflight male opponents. The favored defending champion, 64-year-old Willie Hoppe, who was a billiard prodigy at seven, is still the greatest player of them all; he still practices five hours a day to keep the form...
...platoon got its ammunition and charged up the hill, hollering banzai. A grenade exploded in front of the sergeant, riddling his legs with fragments. He told the men not to stop, limped after them to retake the hill. The Chinese knocked them off the hill again. Four more times Sergeant Lee and his platoon drove forward. Each time the Chinese drove them back. Another grenade blasted the sergeant flat, again riddling his legs...
...DiMaggio stepped from the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, a full-throated roar rose from the waiting crowd. "Banzai DiMaggio," they shouted. Joe and 16 other players-the first U.S. all-star major league team to visit Japan since 1934-had come to make a good-will tour of Japan, in which they will play 15 games of beisu-boru against Japan's best teams...
...Halls of Montezuma" is not a superman comedy of the "Air Force," "Operation Pacific," or "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" stripe. It is a film which must be taken seriously, if only for the fact that roughly half the cast gets killed off, and nobody stands off a Banzai charge of Japs with two grenades, a penknife, and a Louisville slugger. "Halls of Montezuma" attempts to show that war is hell and pretty well succeeds...
...Action. Hopped-up accounts of the Hungnam fighting kept going out. The U.P. sent out a breathless story of the "crucial final stage" that had the U.S. 3rd Division fighting "with its back to the sea to hold open the escape port of Hungnam against Communist 'banzai' attacks." Actually, MacArthur's headquarters insisted, U.S. forces were engaged in an orderly withdrawal at small cost...