Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coronet" was also the code name for the invasion of central Japan, which had been scheduled for about March...
...Chen's officers begged him to lead a last attack. In a midnight sortie, Chen and his handful of troops cut their way to safety through the Nationalist lines. Later, during the war with Japan, Chen built the survivors into the Reds' new Fourth Army. He opened a corridor into Shantung province, where Japs were mauling the Nationalist defenders. Then Chen moved in and attacked-not the Japs-but the disorganized Nationalists. He wrote another poem, an ode to victory...
Premier Wong was also faced by Red pressure in supposedly "safe" areas. In Shanghai, Communists gleefully helped widen a split in U.S.-Chinese relations-capitalizing on Chinese fears of a revived Japan, they sparked student demonstrations against...
...spite of Japan's new coeducational schools, which are warmly encouraged by the U.S., Japanese schoolboys were still acting like aloof little gentlemen-they kept away from the girls, scorned anyone who didn't. In one high school, students got so mad at a classmate who went around with girls that they killed...
...Scrap. Japan, a big prewar buyer of U.S. steel scrap, offered to sell some postwar scrap. Through the New York trade office of SCAP (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers), the Japanese Board of Trade offered 137,000 metric tons of steel and scrap to the highest U.S. bidders...