Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very best indication that Japan was still shy of war was, after all, Pinch Hitter Kurusu's long, sudden hop. For the most grievous pinch in Japanese history, Japan had at least picked its likeliest pinch hitter. Fifty-four-year-old Saburo Kurusu had just about the maximum sense of the American temper possible to a patriotic, native-born Japanese. Known as the most Westernized of Japanese diplomats, he speaks English well, is an after-dinner wit in several languages. His diplomatic career has taken him to China, the Philippines, Hawaii, Chile, Italy, Greece, New York...
Bursting with rhythm, Ray really wanted to be a tap dancer like Bill Robinson. He used to sneak into Harlem's hot spots to watch his favorites tap, picked up show money by doing the Lindy Hop (between cheese-it-the-cops) on Broadway street corners at theater time. Bill Robinson is still Ray's idol...
...other game; it appears as though the Deacons will hop back into the win column with this one. They have been beaten twice in a row, once by Adams, and last week by Lowell, and should be sharpening up their teeth for their game with the Ramblers on Friday at the expense of the Yardlings...
...currently some 38 a day, but between Canada, where U.S. Army ferry pilots turn the ships over to the R.A.F., and Britain lie 2,000 miles of fog-strewn North Atlantic. The job of the Ferry Command is to fly to Britain the bombers that can make the long hop...
...Wood packed a copy of Mein Kampf, which he had been reading during his vacation, and started off with the others. After a weary four-day trek through the wilderness, a flight by plane to Juneau, a trip down the coast by revenue cutter to Seattle and a transcontinental hop, he reported in Washington. He need not have been in such a hurry. The Board's plan for mobilizing the U.S. in a defense program was later submitted to the President, never saw the light of day. The Board was dissolved, and Wood went back to his Highland Park...