Word: detachedness
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Already bombed dozens of times, Tokyo ate bitterness and outrage last week as never before. In two attacks within 48 hours more than 1,000 B-29s sent fire crackling through the heart of the world's third largest city. And sacrilege upon sacrilege, Radio Tokyo gasped that "the...
The biggest and fiercest battle in the post-V-E world was in progress last week in Okinawa. U.S. troops were advancing in the oldfashioned, inescapable .way, one foot at a time, against the kind of savage, rat-in-a-hole defense that only the Japanese can offer. From the...
The Japanese, said the rebels, were among those who knew better. Their exquisite prints had no truck with either nature or morals. Drawn with "uncanny delicacy," they were "as strange and detached from everyday life as if they had dropped from the moon." The figures in them were black-haired...
Dr. Schuebbe was scientifically detached in his motives. Said he:
"The first suicide attack I saw was last winter, against a ship from which I had recently been detached. I had the excruciating experience of watching a flaming furnace which contained many of my friends. Seven Jap planes got through the fighter screen. Six were shot down, but the seventh...