Word: jap
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...considered himself only a temporary visitor. Though his health is frail he knew that, like his friend General MacArthur, he will some day return to his people who are hiding in the hills, to the little, slight-boned, brave men who are standing up, silent, patient, enduring, against the Jap...
...migrants have disappeared like the Egyptians in the Red Sea. The farmers don't know what's become of their wandering field hands. Perhaps they have no tires or gasoline. Maybe they've found better jobs in defense plants, or signed up to fight the Jap and the Nazi. Some farmers have taken their own cars, headed South to look for the missing help. Others offer $35 more than the usual $12-15 weekly wage, plus the un-heard-of luxuries of board, keep, gasoline. But still the Okies don't come...
Australia now understood that it was only the first phase of the Jap's attempt to extend to the south and that he would try again, stronger than before...
...their newspapers Aussies read of the brighter side. A correspondent who got a look at the movies taken of the battle by the Army Air Forces reported that of 22 Jap ships knocked out by U.S. and Australian bombers, 18 were sunk, including two carriers, two cruisers, nine destroyers...
...charmers. Strange too are the problems of Indian newsgathering. Press conferences are rare. Official press releases consist typically of bulletins on rice culture, assembly debates, the comings & goings of maharajahs from the Viceroy's palace. Troubling also are the country's vast distances, with prospects of a Jap attack that might come anywhere or everywhere on a 1,500-mile front from Ceylon to Calcutta...