Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...
When I was hospitalized, the whole layout had been planned, engineered and built by the British with coolie labor. Our diet was Indian with some British and a very pitifully small amount of American food added. The medical supplies would have been appallingly inadequate at times had it not been for the British supplies...
...peace, UNRRA will have to ship, to the nine Axis-occupied European countries alone, 9,268,000 tons of food, 41,278,000 tons of coal, metals, oil, animal feeds, fertilizer, clothing-in all, 50,546,000 tons. Even this great total will give occupied Europe only a minimum diet (57% of prewar U.S. standards). But this supply, aided by one good year of peaceful crops on unscorched earth, should set hungry Europe on its own feet again...
...came, and with it the intoxication of initial victory. But soon the hangover followed. Last week, in the Diet, Nakano heard the Emperor's message: The situation is "truly grave." Later, he heard Premier Hideki Tojo admit that the U.S., defeated at the beginning, was now "overcoming many difficulties and dangers, and the war is growing in intensity." Nakano also knew what most men-in-the-street could barely guess: Japan had suffered reverses in the South Pacific (see col. 2); Mussolini had become a shabby puppet; Hitler...
...either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...