Word: ka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After puzzling for two hours over Cooper's Shon-Ka, I turned TIME upside down. In a matter of seconds, the fruits of his serendipity flooded into my consciousness like a revelation. Suggested subtitle: "Cooper's union suit after a hard day at the laundry...
When Artist Cooper says pictures such as his Shon-Ka may be hung in any of four ways, he overlooks a fifth and preferable way: facing the wall...
...lusty singing and shouted the stiff commands were more positive in their views. Artilleryman Sei-saku Akimoto, leader of the Russian-sponsored Minshu Ka Undo (Democratic Movement) in his camp, said: "The Russians trust us and we trust the Russians. We soon found out from our newspapers there how we had been duped by fascists and capitalists." Snapped former Pfc. Tsugio Kishimoto, prison company commander: "We must all join the Communist Party. It is our only chance to build a new, democratic Japan...
...north, on the edge of the Plain of Megiddo (Armageddon), Fawzi Bey Ka-wukji's Arab Army of Liberation had attacked the Jewish settlement of Mishmar Haemek. The Jewish Haganah, hoping to smash the Arab army, had thrown about 2,000 men into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised...
...China Mail because its editor insisted on having one teetotaling reporter. He covered the 1911 revolution, and then, inspired by the events he had witnessed, became Dr. Sun Yat-sen's adviser. In the early '30s Donald joined the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Ka-shek, and in 1936 helped negotiate Chiang's release in the Sian kidnaping incident...