Word: kimono
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...five children. He owed the grocer, the milkman, the rice dealer. Two weeks ago he sold the family sewing machine to pay the milkman. Last week he fed the whole family a ceremonial meal of rice and red beans. Afterward Ishii strangled his wife and five children with a kimono cord, and went out to end his own life. On the street, the rice dealer accosted him and dunned him for the overdue bill...
...come. Radio listeners who have only known her as Miss Duffy would swear that she is a hilariously funny bit of fuzz-brained fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump in a kimono. But lucky theatergoers have been persuaded, at one time or another, that she was an intense, good-looking young schoolteacher, a tippling grass widow, and a well-girdled, wisecracking career girl...
...school Japanese, Araki is so polite that he finds it almost impossible to finish 18 holes of golf in a day because he keeps asking others to pass him. He wears a kimono at home and prefers to sleep on a straw mat on the floor. To cook for him and act as his official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly...
...over Japan, the defeated were slipping off the straitjacket of occupation and sliding into the comfortable kimono of freedom. Almost daily, another hotel, office building, golf course, dockyard or apartment house was reclaimed from the occupiers. The special ticket windows and the white-striped railroad cars (for occupation forces only) were on their way out. Japanese merchant vessels were allowed to fly the Japanese flag once more in foreign waters. Last week Pakistan became the seventh nation to ratify the Japanese Peace Treaty, which makes it official as soon as all seven signatures are deposited in Washington (this will probably...
...Sympathetic Shake. While converting Okinawans to U.S.-style go-getting, Fisby also learns to appreciate their customs. Nothing seems more restful to him than to visit the teahouse dressed in his bathrobe (as a substitute for a kimono) and drink tea while gazing quietly at the lotus pond. He has been suspicious of the geishas' morals, but he learns that they are respectable girls whose only job is to sing, dance and listen to people's troubles, shake their heads sympathetically and coax the customers into good spirits...