Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This word war had to be waged carefully and cannily, lest the U.S. seem too eager and thus persuade the Japs that they could get better terms by holding out longer. The Japs did their best to convince the U.S. that only soft words would work. Before the Potsdam declaration came out (see INTERNATIONAL) a Tokyo broadcaster blandly counseled the U.S. to watch its words, quoted an old fable: the gentle sun could make a man take off his overcoat more quickly than the strong wind. At Potsdam the U.S. and her Pacific ally, Britain, settled for a strong...
...Started. According to Radio Tokyo, the Kamikaze corps began its "death-defying, body-crashing" tactics last Oct. 15, when Vice Admiral Masabumi Arima flew his plane into a U.S. aircraft carrier, lest "the traditional spirit of the Japanese Navy be spoiled." Thereafter, Radio Tokyo daily intoned the names of "hero gods," who were promoted (posthumously) two or three ranks instead of the customary one. Japanese journalists interviewed little boys whose ambition was to grow up and become suicide pilots...
...obsession, it worshipped God under all forms, from inexpressible abstraction to inexpressible obscenity, from the monkeys which defiled villages and ruined precious crops, to the snakes which every year killed 20,000 people. More extreme devotees, the Jains, even placed cloths over their mouths and noses lest they breathe in and kill forms of life too minute for vision but nevertheless God-created...
...ticket sale for the junior class prom this Saturday is building fast and the affair looms as a likely prospect to cop top social honors for the current season. In other words, kiddies, you had better get your tickets lest you spend another delightful eve in Boston...
Bouncing back from a previous 6 to 5 defeat at the hands of Brown, the Crimson's Varsity nine displayed probably the lest combination of hitting and pitching of the season as it avenged its former less...