Word: last-ditch
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...Last-Ditch Stand. But no news of the surrender proposal was announced to the 70 million Japanese people. Instead War Minister General Korechika Anami called for last-ditch resistance...
Wishbone-shaped Wake, scene of one of the Marines' heroic stands in the war's early weeks, had another last-ditch garrison aboard. But no one went to rout them out. They were dying on the vine, as dozens of other bypassed garrisons in the Pacific were dying...
...last-ditch Japanese defenders were split into pockets no more than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...
Born of Desperation. The basis of future Japanese naval and naval-air war was thus laid bare. With their air force in tatters and their navy cut to shreds, the enemy was preparing for a last-ditch defense by any means at hand. And to the Japanese, that meant murder and suicide...
...roaring against businesslike, liberal-minded TVAman Lilienthal for several years, had carried on a patronage feud with him with all the passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed in. Good friend Truman had already enhanced the McKellar prestige by inviting him to attend Cabinet meetings; the Senator from Tennessee could ill afford a last-ditch patronage row at the very start of the Truman Administration...