Word: kiushiu
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...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...
Under the Pacific Ocean the sea bed moved. Came a great rumble. A violent displacement sent huge rushes of water to the surface and an enormous wall of green sea arose from the depths to career with devastating force upon the Japanese island of Kiushiu, south of the main island of Hondo, upon which is situate Tokyo, capital city...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
Eighteenth Day. Typhoon and tidal wave struck Kiushiu Island, Japan (see p. 22) on which is Omura, where the Pride of Detroit sulked in her hangar. So boisterous were the skies that the Pride dared...
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