Word: kino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Hutton had annoyed the prison's commander, General Eiichi Kino-shita, by refusing to sign a statement that he had been humanely treated. The general turned him over to one Sergeant Bunzo Yoshida. Sometimes Yoshida's lessons would be taught with water, sometimes with electric shock, sometimes with just the butt of a rifle or the heel of a boot. Then one day Yoshida trussed his naked prisoner up with his head between his legs and his arms strapped behind him, and left him alone. Five days later his fellow prisoners found Hutton stark crazy. Next...
Millions of people, from the Kreuz-Kino in Vienna to the Nya Bio in Reykjavik, know the U.S. only as it is reflected in U.S. movies. Last week, two articulate moviegoers reported how that reflection looked to them...
...Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...