Word: hai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door of my house watching, and the people from the village gathered to watch too. The young children squealed and scrambled over the rising mounds of dirt, while several old men looked on silently. One of the soldiers pointed to the hole and said to me: "Bedum hai [B-52]." I turned my back and went to my journal...
...live is sometimes even harder than to die." And what did she have to say to this lordly bit of Tojoism? "I responded as I had to all of his utterances ever since I became his wife at the age of 18. I bowed low to him and said Hai [yes]," she recalled with a captivating smile...
...wife lived undisturbed in their Tokyo home. But one day in mid-September a group of foreign correspondents burst into his home unexpectedly. At the sight of the newsmen, who were dressed in Army uniforms, Tojo immediately told his wife to flee out the back door. After exhaling another Hai, she did. Then Tojo, perhaps to save his honor, tried to commit suicide with a revolver but he only managed to wound himself. Mrs. Tojo, disobeying the command of her husband for the first time in her life, crept back to the house to watch as American MPs came...