Word: banzai
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...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...
About three weeks after Popko had moved to the front, the big attack came -part of the enemy's hard-driving try to take Taegu. Popko's squad was holding the left side of Hill 303.* The enemy came up in three banzai-screaming waves. "Once I was going to get out of the hole and throw my rifle away and go over the hill. You can't explain how it is. You just think you can't stand it any more. But the guy in the next hole to me started talking sense into...
...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...
...back for Inchon to file his story. With him in a jeep were John Davies of the Newark News and Lachie McDonald of the London Daily Mail. As Bell later reported, "We were all quite happy to have survived the rather horrid night and three hours of North Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys' we had traveled with the past few weeks." Then the jeep entered a thick cloud of dust...