Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many years, both as a newspaper editor and as an individual citizen, I have been fighting the Jap menace in America. A year before Pearl Harbor, I saw what was coming and tried to get into the armed forces. I was turned down because of age. Three months ago my only son gave his life for his country...
...course, if you are one of those-and there seem to be many in this country-who want the Japs running your land, there is little we can do except to pray for your misguided soul. The only possible consolation we can see in that picture is that, if the Jap takes over, he perhaps might do a better job of running TIME than do some...
...Japanese Exclusion League, about which you carp ... is building public interest for a postwar election, after the 10,000,000 Yanks get back from the Jap battlefronts, to vote on a Constitutional Amendment that would make it impossible for a Jap to have citizenship, no matter where he was born. If the Jap-lovers are against that American plan, let 'em say it with ballots...
...October 1944, along with the 24th and other divisions, the ist Cavalry went ashore on Leyte. Their new commander, Major General Verne D. Mudge, in the best tradition of Bull Swift, alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
...native instructor answers the questions, also in Japanese, fired at him by the students: "Where are the Japanese troops likely to have taken refuge?" the khaki-clad American asks in the strange tongue. His knowledge of the geography of the area enables him to understand, and perhaps discount, the Jap's answer...