Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more remarkable: Zacharias had pointed out to the Admiral that there were then two Jap envoys in Washington, Nomura and Kurusu. "When the third one arrives," he said, "you can look for it to break immediately." The third Japanese diplomat, Tatsuyi Sakamoto, Ambassador to Peru, arrived in Washington...
Glutton for Punishment. In Shawnee, Kans., Army Corporal John G. Lally, survivor of the Bataan Death March, a Jap prison (three years, five months), malaria and temporary blindness, re-enlisted...
...Navymen were prepared to agree that it was for "the good of the service." Many argued that no amount of zigzagging would have saved the Indianapolis. Said a U.S. submarine commander: "The Jap had a dream dropped in his lap. It's just sheer bad luck for McVay...
...Brown, canyon-mouthed cine-comic, followed Charles A. Lindbergh (TIME, Dec. 10) into the spotlight as a civilian Jap-shooter. In direct violation of the Hague Convention, U.S.O. Trouper Brown, whose son was killed in the war, rode a tank last summer in the attack on Bamban in northern Luzon, popped out with a carbine, blazed away, was credited with killing two Japs...
Fifth Columnists. Inevitably, some of the displaced Japanese had gone underground. Into a Shanghai restaurant came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...