Word: motto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hodgepodge coalition cabinet headed by Katayama, a Christian whose favorite motto is "Do not overdo," had done a surprising amount in eight months. SCAP-sponsored democratizing legislation, obstructed by previous cabinets, had Katayama's willing acquiescence. The Home Ministry, notorious for its "thought control" hammer lock on the Japanese, had been dissolved; a Labor Ministry had been inaugurated; a new criminal code and a new police system had been established...
Upgrade. At this point, when it seemed that Gandhi might die defeated in his battle against hatred, a wave of emotion swept India. With newspapers and radios carrying hourly bulletins of his sinking condition, Delhi's frayed citizens began to organize meetings and processions around the single motto: "Save Gandhi's life." Post-office employees stamped on every letter mailed in New Delhi the message: "Keep communal peace and save Mahatma Gandhi...
...worried about the problem of rallying and holding his forces. To him the enemy was less Communism than apathy. So he worried even about symbols. "When the Catholic Vanguardists were first formed, in 1919," he said, "they had a black flag embroidered with a golden cross and the motto 'Christ or Death.' It was an exciting flag. But the Fascists got a monopoly on the color black; so we have to fall back on white-the color of innocence but hardly inspiring. . . . Those cursed Fascists...
...time I visit Montreal, I get the same question: 'Chief, when are we going to start?' " He hinted that the N.U.P. would "start" early next year. The party still has its old emblem-a torch, surrounded by maple leaves and topped by a Canadian beaver-and its motto: Serviam (I shall serve). When N.U.P. comes into the open, blue shirts presumably will again be the uniform. This time there will be no swastika shoulder patches...
...Japanese and Chinese language schools, but last month in federal court they won the right to start up again. In many homes, where parents speak no English and children no Japanese, pidgin is the only family tongue. One pidgin phrase is known as far as Italy. It is the motto of the famed Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Combat Team in World War II: "Go for broke" ("Give it everything...