Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presented with an ultimatum," wrote the Sultan of Kedah-one of five who had risen to power since the Jap invasion-"and in the event of my refusal to sign what I call the Instrument of Surrender, a successor who would sign would be appointed...
...Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after deciding that most Japanese were thinking about food these days. He rejected rice as unromantic...
...sniper, looking through a fat telescope ("sniperscope") mounted on his carbine, saw a bright green picture of everything in front of him. The gadget flooded his field of fire with invisible infra-red light. Jap uniforms showed up clearer than in daytime. Any attempt at camouflage was a dead giveaway...
Breakfast-Table Briefing. Behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, McGovern screamed Buddhist curses in Japanese, captured a few Jap prisoners to question. He crossed the Rhine with Patton's men, and later worked on the Potsdam declaration. But his biggest war job was in Washington. He had to get up at 5:30 a.m., to bang out a daily top-secret newspaper on enemy capabilities and intentions-required breakfast reading for President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...people eat and drink-and how they treat their mothers-in-law. If you know the culture patterns of India, how the Bengalese feel about the Burmese, and the Burmese about the Kachins, and which hate the British, you can guess pretty accurately how India will react to a Jap attack. That is applied political science...