Word: pow
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...Hayakawa's renown declined in the early '20s, and Hollywood ignored the Japanese for two decades. The war brought them back, more virulent than ever. The ad line for the 1943 film China read: "Alan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs!" In the POW drama The Purple Heart, American airmen are tortured and executed for not ratting their pals. War movies reveled in a grim picture of the superhuman, subhuman foe - propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from...
...frosh were welcomed by protesters outside of Mass. Hall and a Native American pow-wow in front of the Science Center this weekend as they got an official taste of life at Harvard...
...frosh were welcomed by protesters outside of Mass. Hall and a Native American pow-wow in front of the Science Center this weekend as they got an official taste of life at Harvard...
...with a colorful and engaging form of escapism, using a combination of vibrant art and fantastic stories to bring the adventures of larger-than-life heroes and dastardly villains to life. Marked by the trademark use of word balloons (often filled with colorful word-sounds like “Pow!”, “Blam!” and “Kaboom!”), comics were a unique and distinctive art form that captured the wide-eyed imaginations of children everywhere...
...fighter pilot knows, it's not just how well you fight, it's how well you crash. In Vietnam, John McCain survived more than five years in a POW camp after being shot down. In this year's G.O.P. primary, the Arizona Senator--likening himself to Luke Skywalker attacking the Death Star--flew hell-for-leather against his party's anointed leader, George W. Bush, championing the anathematized cause of campaign-finance reform. McCain based his campaign on "straight talk." His forthright style earned him goodwill from the press and an intense following among independents and disaffected voters, who turned...