Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo...
...Fohn Wind, a warm dry wind which blows down the sides of many mountain ranges, has long been notorious for producing . . . irritability and quarrelsomeness." Some desert-dwellers are always irritable. (Humidity produces the same effect in rats-TIME, June...
There were still an estimated 30,000 Japs scattered throughout the Islands; U.S. and Filipino troops were burning and grenading them out of caves and jungle hideaways. Said the communiqué: "Some minor isolated action of a guerrilla nature in the practically uninhabited mountain ranges may occasionally persist, but this great land mass of 115,600 square miles, with a population of 17,000,000, is now freed of the invader...
Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...
...second time we hit the beach at Iwo the marines were taking over Mt. Suribachi. When they raised a little flag on top of the mountain, the marines on the beach cheered. A little later a marine came on board asking for a larger, flag, so I gave him our only large flag-which is the one pictured on the first page of TIME magazine last week [March 5 3:= We are-proud that it is our flag flying there...