Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exxon brought the Esso tiger back into its ads with the slogan: "We're changing our name, but not our stripes." In one of the drive's most successful commercials, the tiger is summoned back to duty from the "Advertising Hall of Fame" and is given a banzai by such sales stars as Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Borden's Elsie the Cow and Planters' Mr. Peanut...
...American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw at Tokyo...
...shooting. "We piled through and raced past Times Square," recalled one police sergeant. "The ones that resisted?throwing spears and Molotov cocktails?were cut down. We caught some men with arms extended to throw weapons. Anybody that resisted was killed." Claimed one officer: "They came at us like a banzai charge, waving knives and spears. Those we had to shoot...
...Banzai for Swapping...
...passengers debarked, many of them pausing on the way out to shake hands ceremoniously with their captors. Then Yamamura boarded the plane, after which the remaining 49 passengers were released. The free passengers were quickly flown to Fukuoka, where they were greeted with joyous cries of "Banzai" by friends and relatives. Flight 351 flew on to Pyongyang. Next day the North Koreans freed the plane, its crew and hostage Yamamura. They flew home, abandoning the samurai skyjackers to a doubtful welcome: Pyongyang Radio was already referring to them as "Trotskyite criminals...