Word: banzai
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Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song...
...Emperors unbroken for ages eternal," and Article III, which says: "The Emperor is sacred and inviolable." It was Shinto that taught Japanese law students: "Subjects have no mind apart from the will of the Emperor." Shinto taught Japanese Army privates: "Those who, with the words 'Tenno Heika Banzai!' (May the Emperor live forever!) on their lips, have consummated a tragic death in battle, whether they are good or whether they are bad, are thereby sanctified...
Admiral Nimitz's reference left no doubt that the Navy now recognizes these banzai air charges as a tactical policy, a desperate attempt to halt the U.S. fleet's advances on the home islands. It was also clear that the Navy would not have permitted correspondents to tell of crash dives if it had not found ways to make them mainly ineffective...
...under Major General Clifton B. Gates, had tough going on the right flank. Near the end of the third week, the Japs on Cates's front decided to press for a decision. In the middle of the night they staged an infiltration attack-not a senseless banzai charge, but a well-executed, coordinated drive. The marines stood their ground, and in the morning 564 corpses were counted in front of their positions...
...week is critical. German momentum is spending but not completely spent. If the Allied counterattacks are successful, Rundstedt may lose much or all of the last German reserves in the west. But in recent months all Germany has grown as fierce and fanatical in its losing struggle as the banzai-charging Japanese infantry...