Word: harakiri
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...capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present moment as appropriate for a tremendous act of national harakiri, we in the British Empire will cooperate without limit...
...Artist Chiapasco modeled from them his ambitious works. He lined a corridor with bas-reliefs of Pain, Destiny, Love, Will Power, Desire, the faces of which all came from death masks. Sculptor Chiapasco's favorites were the models of the ecstatic features of a Japanese who had committed harakiri, the utter despair on the face of a woman murdered by her husband, the exquisite torso of a young girl run over by an omnibus on a Buenos Aires street...
...future, the Radicals are now split into two camps, one led by onetime President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear favoring cooperation with the Conservatives. Even Radicals are beginning to fear that unless Argentina ends the political strife which has weakened her for two generations, she will commit national harakiri...
...carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1) to pass a new tax bill, which in an election year is similar to harakiri; or 2) simply to go on borrowing money, thereby creating a larger deficit and running the public debt beyond the statutory $45,000,000,000 limit...
This week, like a Japanese samurai who feels himself dishonored, the Ministry committed harakiri. Its regional offices disbanded, the staff in London prepared for wholesale dismissals. A skeleton Ministry hoped to carry on as a propaganda agency; but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was expected to announce that a new department would censor news dispatches and issue Government communiques...