Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasserted male superiority. But once Japan had plunged into war with the U.S., it was these same militarists who insisted that woman's place was in the factory. Even geisha girls were rounded up for munitions work, and housewives organized into "patriotic" associations to sew uniforms and make bandages. When the war ended in humiliating defeat, the men were totally discredited, and the young women ripe for transformation into mambo-garu-generally to the distress of their mothers, who had already forgotten that, as "daughters of the earthquake," they too had once been all for emancipation...
...right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...Spelled out his theory of law: "We shall be respectful of the law, but of the revolutionary law; respectful of right, but of revolutionary right-not of the old right, but the new right that we are going to make. For old law, no respect; for new law, respect. Who has the right to modify the constitution? The majority. Who has the majority? The revolution...
...teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors-one of the few New Zealanders to make it all the way through radio school, and the first of the group to be accepted for teacher training...
...chance to talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...