Word: kimono
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parents smilingly held children up to see him; schoolgirls giggled nervously. A middle-aged man in a grey kimono lustily waved a frayed pith helmet, a relic of the army's Pacific salad days, while tears coursed from his eyes. A gnarled old woman stared fixedly, saying over & over in a choked voice, "li des-it is good." The react! ~n. had been the same in farming villages, coal mines, industrial areas-wherever the glossy, chrysanthemum-decked imperial train chugged...
...went to bed [in Moscow] very early on Monday, Feb. 14 . . .A bang on the door awoke me and the loud word: 'Open!' ... I threw on a kimono . . . Three men in uniform strode in. 'Come with us. You are arrested...
...into its fifth week, theatrical, horse-faced Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars finally got to the witness stand herself in Washington's Federal District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
...Tokyo, an inventory of Emperor Hirohito's wardrobe reached the tax office. He was ready for any weather. Items: 16 overcoats, 23 sack suits, six frock coats, five morning coats, two swallowtails, two tuxedos, four uniforms and two kimono-style wraparounds...
...reinstalled in their cages or in glass showcases. In death as in life the zoo's star attraction was Tora San, the huge tiger. Propped up before a painted backdrop of lush green jungle, his bared fangs sent many a moppet scurrying closer to his mother's kimono...