Word: banzais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best Days." Sure enough, the seven pilots flocked to Ozuki. They had no trouble recognizing the girls from Tabe High. Spotting Mrs. Hori, ex-Kamikaze Hideo Kawai cried: "Why, you look exactly the same!" "And you look as handsome as ever," said she. "Banzai!" cheered Kawai, a portly, balding Kyoto milk dealer who obviously could not swing into a fighter cockpit as easily as he once did. Over a lunch of rice, shredded cuttlefish and beer-a traditional Kamikaze last meal -the men and women swapped toasts "to the best days of our lives," promised to meet again next year...
Euphoric, Miss Haruno promptly set off on a victory tour of shops using automatic dry-cleaning equipment. "Listen to those machines," she crowed. "They sound like the three cheers of banzai...
...marchers were protesting the Japan-South Korea Normalization Treaty, ratified by banzai vote in the Diet a week earlier when Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic floor managers bulldozed the opposition Socialists with a post-midnight roll call. Japan's leftists claim that the treaty will somehow lead to Japanese involvement in the Viet...
...mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
...year is 1970, and the first human being has just set foot on the moon. But what's this he's carrying? A paintbox, some drawing paper, a few garden tools, three kimonos and two bottles of Scotch. He shouts a soundless "Banzai!" into the wastes of the Sea of Serenity, dashes off a haiku or two, and quickly builds himself a Zen rock garden. The inscrutable Nipponese have beaten Russia and the U.S. to the moon...