Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nisei, an American citizen of Japanese parentage. Like many other Niseis, I am in the service of my country. This war has hit us harder, probably, than any other portion of the American society. It has caused suspicion to be cast on us, not because we have done anything of a suspicious nature, but because of our race. Let me assure you that we know and love only one country...
Would it not be more apropos to say, "Remember when we cast our Pearl before the swine...
Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown Shirts would break down Versailles restrictions against recreation of his fleet. He gained powerful supporters in the German Inner Circle: Admiral Otto Schniewind, former director of naval education, now Chief of Staff of the German Navy High Command, is his close friend. The Luftwaffe's Hermann Göring...
...Dramatic Club has begun work on a comedy especially designed for the camps. Using a single set, which will be transported to the various camps in Army trucks, the play will feature a small cast and a portable stage. Pi Eta is also planning a show for camp presentation...
Northbridge Rectory, the latest Thirkell, reports Barsetshire during the Battle of Britain. Its large cast of small-town Britons is so very whimsical, lovable and British that they constantly threaten to slip into vaudeville (but never quite do). Nothing in particular happens to any of them. But the day-to-day record of their semi-humorous plane-watchings, their quiet contempt for "our little friend with the moustache," their unruffled adjustments to blackouts, to ill-mannered evacuees, to billeted officers, to shoddy goods "which, if we describe them as Empire, will be sufficiently described," to food shortages and to death...