Word: ishikawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this activity is proceeding with no central organization, no church buildings, with few Bibles and hardly any hymnbooks. . . . The only Japanese Scripture in Ishikawa [Okinawa's capital] is ten pages of foolscap, which Mr. Toyama had written down from memory for his own devotions...
...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...
Weight-lifting contests usually involve lifting a bar bell overhead by three methods: the two-hand snatch, the two-hand clean and jerk, the two-hand military press.* Atlas' share of this year's honors went to York's Emerick Ishikawa, a 23-year-old Japanese-American in the 123-lb. class. At the A.A.U. championships in Chattanooga, Tenn. he added 19¼ Ib. to the snatch record by lifting 193 Ib. He cleaned and jerked a record...
...still turns out an average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...