Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local cattle-slaughtering techniques on remote farms, where the gentle beasts, with tender humaneness, are made drunk on a bucketful of shochu-crude native booze-before they are led, staggering, carefree and mooing gratefully in a what-the-hell mood, to the poleax. Gourmets attribute the superior quality of Kobe beef to this alcoholic anesthesia as much as to the sensitive Japanese habit of massaging the cattle regularly once a week, thereby marbling the fat through the steak...
...week's end Sukarno had begun to wear a harried look, announced that he would leave for Djakarta earlier than he had expected-but only because his wife is expecting a baby. Then he went off to a luncheon party at the Indonesian consulate in Kobe, where he led his guests in singing a ballad called When We Were Young and Gay. His press officer explained: "It's his favorite song...
...Hiroshima over. When the news broke that this month his tour of duty with the U.S. Information Service will end, local notables protested. The daily Chugoku Press has printed a suggestion that the Fotouhis be made honorary citizens of Hiroshima. In a letter to the U.S. consul general in Kobe, the mayor of the city, the governor of the prefecture and the president of the university asked that Fotouhi be kept on at least two more years. "He has done more than any other person could ever have done," they wrote, "in the interest of the better and fuller understanding...
...Help Wanted" signs are out this week in Kobe and Yokohama and in Osaka girl cotton workers are whipping about on roller skates to speed movement up and down the humming spindle lines. In Osaka's neon-doused Dotombori section, cabarets and bars are putting up "Off Limits to Foreigners" signs in recognition of the fact that Japanese businessmen, and not G.I.s, are today's big spenders...
Kamikaze. In Kobe, Japan, Taxi Driver Terumitsu Sano became suspicious of the jittery antics of Passenger Akimitsu Tatesu, deposited him at a police station, learned that he had planned to blow himself up in the cab with 20 sticks of dynamite...