Word: ee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take TIME to task for a flippantly misleading background sketch of a most able man, neither melancholy nor laconic, and in the vernacular of the "Cousin Jacks" (an Army nickname pinned on Searls because of his fund of Welsh miners' stories) I say "Back at 'ee...
...Pronounced: Ex-eu’-pair-ee...
...people who did not forget were the Chinese, who live on the opposite side of the earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations...
...Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
Aland Islands: o'land Hanko: hang'koe Helsinki: hell'sink-ee...