Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...
Strictly Filthy. The destroyer tagged the Jap ship for two days; when she sailed from Wake, the Americans prepared to board her again. From 1,000 yards to windward, the crew of the Murray was sickened by the stench of sickness, "like the sweet, sickly odor of rotten fruit...
Japan's most-famed Christian is a near-blind pacifist named Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, March 12). Of recent years, he has been accused of being a mouthpiece for Jap propaganda. Last week, in the Living Church, ex-Missionary L. S. Albright of the International Missionary Council suggested that Kagawa be not judged too hastily...
...basis of his own firsthand knowledge, plus detailed reports from FCC and OWI, Albright pieced together a summary: Kagawa continues to express himself vigorously, sometimes without sufficient data on such touchy questions as the U.S. desecration of Jap bodies. His statements are shrewdly edited and used by the Japanese Government, but he himself has broadcast no anti-U.S. propaganda. Kagawa continues to preach, to organize relief work and to condemn warfare (both Japanese and U.S.). The Albright conclusion : Dr. Kagawa is "an earnest Christian leader who may yet be the hope of Japan...
Married. Warrant Officer George Ray Tweed, 43, Navy radioman who played Robinson Crusoe for two and a half years as a fugitive on Jap-held Guam; and Dolores Kramer, 29. War Department employe; she for the first time, he for the second (he filed suit for divorce from his first wife nine days after his return); in Washington...