Word: jap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jap was busy, on the Siberian frontier (see p. 24), in the Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations...
...willingly was the Jap retiring. He had worked too hard consolidating his hold on the provinces last May and June to throw the advantages they gave him out the window. He retired too slowly, took too many casualties, to give his retreat the color of orderly withdrawal. He even launched fierce counterattacks, retook one town (Lanchi) after the Chinese had driven him from...
Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...
...Boettiger is fighting. His paper alleged that the prosecutor failed to report $12,000 of his income on his tax returns. Wellington Koo Jr., 21-year-old son of the Chinese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was held (briefly) in Mechanicsburg, Pa., as a suspected Jap spy. Prince and Princess Guido Pignatelli's 32-room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former Henrietta Hartford, A. & P. heiress. Shrewd, brilliantly blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett declared that the boy she had legally adopted a decade ago was actually...
Thus the U.S. paid a debt of gratitude dating from Dec. 7. For Hawila captured and disarmed a Jap pilot who landed on the island. And when the Jap later escaped and ran amuck trying to kill the islanders, Hawila sailed in a whale boat to get help, while old Kanahele battled the berserk enemy...