Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino for directions. His only answer: "Shut up! We don't talk to Japs. We don't like you around here." Staff Sergeant Masami Hayashi, of the Army of the United States, shrugged and walked on. Like a hundred other Nisei in the Philippines, he Was rubbed raw almost daily by Filipinos' hostility. All he could do was to wish desperately that somebody in authority would tell the Filipinos what Americans of Japanese ancestry had achieved in the war, how they had proved their once-questioned loyalty...
...hates the country. He loathes . . . the swarming life of insects and the pullulation of plants. At most he tolerates the level sea, the unbroken desert sand, or the mineral coldness of Alpine peaks; but he feels at home only in cities. . . . He doesn't like raw vegetables or milk fresh from the cow or oysters on the half shell, but only cooked foods; and he always asks for preserved fruit instead of the natural product...
Much of the U.S. last week was close to a sugar famine. The American Sugar Refining Co., biggest U.S. cane refiner, feared that all of its plants would run out of raw sugar in two weeks...
...topics barred-but "the participation of the people is being hampered by their anxieties over the problems of living." ¶ Unless food can be imported, some Japanese will starve this winter. For exports, Japan could provide up to 2,000 tons of tea and 135,000 bales of raw silk. To preserve silk for export, MacArthur has forbidden the Japs to use it themselves. ¶ After a long ban on unions, workers are now allowed to organize, and "emergence of a strong unified labor movement" is in prospect. ¶ Businessmen had been under Government control so long they found...
...organized these wretched bands into an effective organization, sharing with them their raw, uncomfortable, dangerous life and breathless escapes, leading them on hazardous sabotage expeditions until, by the time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets...