Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From these early beginnings has grown a world-wide Anglican institution, comprised of British, American, and Canadian congregations, with missions in Scotland, Japan, India, and South Africa. The Society publishes three periodicals, numerous pamphlets and books, and has carried Episcopal missionary work to the remotest corners of the earth. Its headquarters in the United States are at the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, in Cambridge...
...Japan's election brought a roar of outrage from the U.S.S.R., whose candidate for the post was Czechoslovakia. Fuming that "the United Nations is not a club of like-minded people but an international organization," Soviet Delegate Vasily Kuznetsov charged that by backing Japan the U.S. had violated a 1945 "gentlemen's agreement" reserving one of the six nonpermanent seats in the Security Council for an Eastern European nation...
...supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the disputed seat for half of the normal two-year term. Japan's election carried U.S. strategy a step further. By backing an Asian nation, the U.S. had weaned part of the Afro-Asian bloc away from the Soviet candidate, seemed well on its way to nullifying the so-called Eastern European seat...
After a stopover on its way from Guam to Japan, an Air Force C-47 lumbered off Iwo Jima's big new landing strip, only seconds after take-off lost one engine and stuttered with its other. No. 13 on the plane's passenger manifest: well-Oriented Author James A. (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener, immersed in some island-hopping research for a book on the Strategic Air Command. Unable to regain the strip, the pilot chose to go by the book, ditched the aircraft and immersed Michener in Michener's favorite ocean. Rescued after...
...fleet, is so publicity-shy that almost nobody knows what he is up to. But last week word came out of his modest Manhattan office that Ludwig was up to a great deal: one of the biggest private shipbuilding orders ever. Beginning next June, his shipyard division in Kure, Japan will start building five huge, 103,000-dead-weight-ton tankers, dwarfing Ludwig's 85,000-d.w.t. Universe Leader, world's biggest tanker, and boosting Ludwig's fleet to more than 3,000,000 deadweight tons by 1960. When the ships are launched, they will...