Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it. ... After all, the President of the United States is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess."-Harold Ickes...
...European churchmen, who smelled an "American heresy." French ecclesiastics, to whom democracy meant Jacobinism and anticlericalism, were especially outraged. They could not forget France's great bloody adventure in democracy, when revolutionaries in 1793 seized Notre Dame Cathedral as a "Temple of Reason," and crowned an actress as "Goddess of Reason...
...Wiggle. Soon after V-J day, the Signal Corps put Lieut. Colonel John H. DeWitt, a former radio "ham," in charge of a project called "Diana" (goddess of the moon, the wood, childbirth). No radically new apparatus was used, only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse...
Hirohito, Son of Heaven and Scion of the Sun Goddess, last week denied his own identity...
With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...