Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With time, Nakano's fanatic ardor grew. Eighty-six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he hinted that Japan would seize Singapore, urged the U.S. to divide the Pacific into two zones and let Japan "establish an ideal new order in Greater East Asia." Seventy days before the attack, he demanded immediate occupation of the Dutch East Indies, threatened that he would overthrow the Cabinet if it came to terms with the U.S. Six days before the attack, he demanded the sinking of U.S. ships if Washington rejected Tokyo's demands...
Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East. Said Will Rogers: perhaps the Mikado would be an ideal U.S. puppet in Japan. The idea had been proposed by a British diplomat, he said. Congressman Rogers carefully did not endorse or condemn the plan; he merely offered it for his listeners' "consideration...
...country's patrician small colleges, Williams of Williamstowri, Mass. As it has to all hills and plains, the war has come to the college's lovely wooded heights. U.S. President James Abram Garfield (Williams '56) said of the college under its fourth president: "The ideal college is one with Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other." But last week more than 1,226 students were crowded into neocolonial quarters built for a peacetime total of 820. For the duration, Williams will teach aviation cadets and apprentice seamen almost exclusively...
...visibility. On the day of the tournament he put on his white ducks and special hat (it had "large squares of rustproof screening on it for ventilation"), took over the jobs of checker, referee, games announcer, scorer. Since he liked crowds and policemen, the tournament presented Father with "an ideal problem . . . the crowds would come to watch the match and the police would come to watch the crowds...
Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...