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General Anami was a military mystic. He once called on Japan's soldiers "to defend the Imperial land even after death with your souls." When he heard the news of his son's death in battle, his only visible emotion was to crush a flower bud in his hand. He held out against surrender. Before committing harakiri, he wrote a farewell to his Emperor ("I humbly beg . . . pardon ... for my great sins") and a poem...
Unfrocked. In Rangoon, many Bud dhist monks have been forced to become laymen because of the scarcity and high prices of bowls, umbrellas, slippers and yellow robes...
...quality of the performance, major credit was due to two U.S. generals who went in with their men: Major General William M. ("Bud") Miley, commander of the 17th Airborne, taking his outfit into combat for the first time, and Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, veteran airborne fighter and commander of the Airborne Army's XVIII Corps. They had led their troops across the enemy barrier on bridges of silk...
...amphitheatre which slopes backwards and upwards to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation. This depression is covered with the great parks and gardens of noblemen, and . . . the bright colors of their palaces bud out here & there like flowers. It is a beautiful spot...
...Matures so quickly that the boll weevil, a late spring starter, can do it little damage. It is also practically immune to the bud-eating thrip...