Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As spring and warmer weather came to Tokyo, U.S. soldiers strolled arm in arm with Japanese girls along the carp-filled Imperial moat, lolled amorously on the grass of Hibiya Park, made love in the back of Army jeeps. It was hard to remember that they had once been scheduled...
In a second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching...
Report on Greece (MARCH OF TIME) provides a quick, sobering glance at the tragic face of modern Greece. A review of domestic problems and foreign pressures since the Italian invasion of 1940, the film offers no facile suggestions for the solution of either. The record of five long, lean years...
For a month the Houston had been taking it in a hopeless, losing, running battle with the powerful Imperial Fleet. Her crew was red-eyed and groggy from constant days of battle and alerts, from nights of air attack. She was running low on antiaircraft ammunition, her planes were out...
Hirohito stepped stiffly from his car at the Showa Electrical Co. plant near Yokohama. Past officials and workers standing at attention with Sunday smiles, he pattered like a not-quite-recuperated invalid treading on eggshells. While functionaries droned through tedious reports, Hirohito clasped and unclasped his hands, shifted from foot...