Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing else could, the imperial homage to MacArthur told the people that Japan was truly beaten. A railway ticket-seller, when he heard the news, dropped his rice bowl, laid his head on the counter and wept. He said: "My heart is frozen...
During the '20s, when British Novelist Aldous Huxley was writing sexy, sophisticated novels (Point Counter Point), the fashionable thing was humanistic materialism. By this week it was plain that the times and Author Huxley have changed: the new vogue is mysticism...
After the seizure of Hideki Tojo (TIME, Sept. 17), who bungled his attempt at suicide,* counter-intelligence officers began rounding up the other 39 on MacArthur's first list of criminals wanted...
Last week into Domei's Tokyo offices stomped U.S. officers with an order from the Supreme Commander to close up shop (see INTERNATIONAL). Then Colonel Donald Hoover, censorship officer of U.S. counter intelligence, summoned Jap news chiefs and read them the riot...
...favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...