Word: naze
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Okada sat in stunned silence during the vote. Then, when it was over, he turned to a colleague and asked in disbelief, "Naze?" (Why?). It was a question any Japanese businessman should have known the answer to, and never learning it had apparently been Okada's problem all along. Said the company's managing director, Tadayoshi Sugita, afterward: "Mitsukoshi will now make a fresh start...
...Queen Victoria's favorite walker, Bert Couzens cannot keep his feet still. At eleven, he strolled from London to Colchester (about 50 miles); three years later he was fired from his chemist's apprentice job for walking off one day to see friends at Walton-on-the-Naze (about 70 miles). Now 47, Bert Couzens has lately been doing some serious training - 50-mile strolls three times a week-for a man-sized walk...
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