Word: hiroshima
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...deliver their lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Ikeda was born in Hiroshima prefecture, is descended from six generations of wealthy sake makers. In early deference to the family business, he developed a prodigious capacity for the native drink (the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi noted candidly last week that "he has been on the wagon now for one month"). He became a hard-working government tax expert. In World War II, he bossed the tax bureau's head office in Tokyo, raising revenues for the Imperial armies. During the U.S. occupation of Japan, he proved to be U.S. Economic Adviser Joseph Dodge's most stubborn and effective...
...Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). The acknowledged New Wave masterpiece plunges two lovers into charred Hiroshima and reminds the audience-too slowly-that love and life go on even in the nightmare of death...
...Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). The acknowledged New Wave masterpiece plunges two lovers into the charred acres of bombed Hiroshima, reminds the world that love and life go on even in the nightmare of death...
...Hiroshima, Mon Amour (French). What could have been a conventional Brief Encounter sort of romance is turned into an intensely moving, if occasionally slow, cinematic poem, largely thanks to its Hiroshima setting, where yesterday's nightmare mingles with the irresistible charms of newly growing life...