Word: maru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There she will meet the Japanese Keta Maru, which in better days flew the French flag as the Aramis. She will ex change cargoes - and above all civilian prisoners...
...treaty ship laid down in 1927, she is the oldest heavy cruiser the U.S. has. So bare of streamlined beauty is her ungainly silhouette that Correspondent Bob Casey (Torpedo Junction) fondly fastened the nickname "Swayback Maru" on her when the censors would not let him reveal her real name. Because she never got hit hard enough to be sent home for repairs, she never got much publicity. But many a high-ranking Navy man was willing to concede by last week that on performance the Salt Lake City was the No. 1 U.S. cruiser...
...Imagine Tojo's discomfort if he knew that his warriors were calling each other Hachi Maru, which is Japanese for 8-ball. . . . Nor would Tojo appreciate the sentiments displayed by another prisoner when someone mentioned Germany in his presence. With thumb and forefinger of his left hand he gripped his nose firmly, while the right hand shot forward in a Hitlerian salute...
Last week Joe Grew reached Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Asama Maru, on the first leg of his homeward trip to Washington. The 62-year-old Ambassador's unhappiness was made plain in quotations from a speech which he had delivered to his Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after...
...often happens in personal crises, Joe Grew's large distress was accompanied by small discomforts. The Japanese had allowed no dogs on the Asama Maru and the Ambassador had been obliged to leave behind his four-year companion Sasha, a white spitz...