Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen home in ten years. All of us have been prisoners for four. We have made the greatest sacrifice." The 2,000 chorused: "Sono tori [exactly]!" The captain barked: "Full of hope, we have come to build a new democratic Japan on the Potsdam agreement." The men thundered: "Yoshi [good...
...spoke about their captivity in various ways. "The Russian treatment was on the whole good," some would say with jerky glances over their shoulders. "I say join the Communists in Japan, but I want to wait and see what conditions are really like first." At times, when one of the dyed-in-the-wool Communists passed, the voices would die to a murmur...
...Never Had It So Good." The school in Siberia which had inculcated such thoughts and sentiments had begun bitterly. For two years the men were cold and hungry, worked unremittingly. Then the Russians eased up. For those who embraced Communism or at least paid lip service, living conditions took a sharp turn for the better. Recalled one repatriate: "I never had it so good. There was plenty to eat and the Russians were so easygoing...
...ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good as new as he won over Vulcan's Forge in 2:02 4/5, only three-fifths of a second off. the stake record for a mile and a quarter. quarter...
...explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that...