Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 80% of the damaged ships were hit by Japanese suicide planes. The figures highlighted two points about the Kamikazes: 1) they were much more effective than Navy brass hats had dared to admit ("only 2% effective" was Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's airy summation); and 2) they might have turned the Okinawa battle, if they had been better organized...
...Hunted. The correspondents were led to his hideout, a modest suburban house with a flagstone entryway. In the dimness of a tiny front room sat the hunted old man. There was no mistaking Admiral Suzuki, although he wore a commonplace green uniform with no medals or brass buttons. He was a tall, impressive figure, grey-haired, with a short-clipped mustache and a winning smile. His greeting was cordial, but he looked about him carefully when they entered...
...cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions of the surrender would be enforced by men raging mad at what the Japs did to fellow U.S. soldiers...
...headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three cheers for the U.S. Navy...
Like the Brown Shirts. This gunplay touched off four days of rioting, unsurpassed in Buenos Aires for 26 years. The same day, while the victory celebrants were whooping it up elsewhere, a score or so of pro-Government hoodlums, "uniformed" in white raincoats and armed with brass knuckles and revolvers, marched down the Calle Florida, Buenos Aires' Fifth Avenue. They shouted "Viva Perón!" "Down with democracy!" "Down with the Jews!" They smashed the windows of pro-Allied shopowners, and looted their window displays...