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Word: hirotsugu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife the simple encouragement "Hang in there." And from Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, there was a 17-sentence letter to his three children that was alternately wistful, sad, instructive and finally philosophical: "I'm grateful for the truly happy life I have had until now." As people around the world read newspaper accounts of these brave notes and news of the Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Never a Year So Bad | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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