Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo announced the launching of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, named for the "divine wind" that had saved Japan from Mongol invasion in 1281. The 1944 corps was Japan's effort to whistle up an equally effective wind. It failed, but bloodily; with an expenditure of 1,228 planes and pilots, the Japanese sank 34 U.S. ships, damaged 288, took a heavy toll of life...
...serious underemployment by building up vast cottage industries. Communes are now in the midst of a mass drive to produce pig iron and steel in tiny handmade blast furnaces of a kind developed by Chinese artisans in the Middle Ages. In China's desolate northern marches Mongol and Tartar women sweat over more than 5,000 furnaces which they have built in the last few weeks, and in Honan 440,000 furnaces (operated by peasants who have already put in a ten-hour day in the fields) allegedly turned out 300,000 tons of steel in October alone...
Plug Nichirens. In Tokyo, during a showing of Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion, the management of a movie theater had to beg Nichiren Buddhists in the audience to stop throwing coins-an act of worship-at the fragile Cinema-Scope screen...
...past. The sun-baked Abode of Peace by the Tigris has a new bridge, new Royal Palace and Parliament buildings, a TV station and its first air-conditioned movie. It has started slum clearance and flood control, and its ancient irrigation system, in ruins since Hu-lagu the Mongol destroyed it in 1258, is being rebuilt. To top off the all-out effort to make the new Baghdad as great as the monumental city of 2,000,000 that was the setting for the Arabian Nights, the city has summoned great architects from around the world...
...drama of East and West has three acts and an optional ending. In Act I, lasting roughly from 500 B.C. to 1000 A.D.. the Far East (India, China) and the Mediterranean world made only fitful contact through commerce and, occasionally, war; the spread of Islam and the Mongol invasions actually "cut off Europe from any direct knowledge of the East." In Act II, lasting roughly from the 16th century to the early 20th, the West, vitalized by ideas of progress and purpose in man's life, turned its power on a static East still lost in the illusion...