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Word: carping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Appeasement | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Pacific Pacific? | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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