Word: occidentale
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Kichisaburo's first fight, it happens, was in defense of the West. The day he wore his first pair of Occidental shoes the school bully razzed him. Nomura pulled off one shoe, beat the bully with it until the shoe was unwearable. But his thrifty mother had declared that...
But, while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats...
In defending his high dive, Clark had a hard time convincing the judges that his flips were superior to those of Sammy Lee, a gum-chewing Korean representing Occidental College. Lee finished with 105 points to Clark's 107.
With the help of his wife, a Viennese dancer named Trudle Dubsky, Zipper introduced Manila to the latest thing in modern ballet. Between seasons he took Manila's orchestra to the mile-high Luzon resort-town of Baguio, where it played symphonies for vacationing Manilans while puzzled Igorots in...
Two propaganda blows by the Axis last week rang through Latin America: Circular Letter. Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in a letter sent to all Latin American governments, told how Spain had joined Adolf Hitler's crusade against Communism: 90,000 Spaniards had enlisted in the German crusade...