Word: harikari
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Wrote Fred: "no malice was intended and i am sorry to have incurred the disfavor of the gentlemen. . . . i have considered committing harikari on the two points recently gained by bethlehem steel. i have also thought about calling a conference, since a conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done, both ideas were abandoned in favor of this letter...
...villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
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