Word: jap
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...just a Formosan peasant's daughter, but she had been beautiful in her youth, when she went to Shanghai in the '20s and studied Communism. Now, at 46, after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...
...weeks the U.S. garrison had seen signs of resurgent Jap activity. A raft loaded with stolen Marine rations was discovered floating in Peleliu's lowland swamps. Then a Marine sentry fired on a band looting a warehouse of captured Japanese weapons, was answered with rifle and grenade fire. The Jap strength was estimated at 50, led by a lieutenant commander, with more coming in daily from nearby Babelthuap. Alarmed by the weakness of his small, lightly armed Marine garrison, worried for the safety of the 35 naval dependents, Peleliu's commander radioed for reinforcements...
...commander of the Sixth Army that he was begging friends in Washington to come up and lunch with him. And among the shady hackberry trees and smooth lawns of San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, General Jonathan Wainwright, commanding the Fourth Army, had plenty of time to remember Jap shells...
...over the Philippine Sea. From the bridge of the flagship, a small, wiry man strained his eyes into the grey darkness. It was June 19, 1944, the second day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and the planes were still out. This small, wiry man calculated the risks: Jap snoopers were probably near by, there were always submarines...
...Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...