Word: razors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribesmen came marching down the dirt road singing their own pidgin French words to the tune of John Brown's Body. At the outskirts of town they split up into three gangs, and as they made their way down the streets, they began to swing their razor-sharp pangas with a kind of dazed abandon. They burned down 20 houses whose families had been trapped inside, slashed and hacked at others as if chopping through the underbrush. Of the 80 who were killed, 24 were women and 37 were children...
...Razor." At Tokyo's Imperial University, Nobusuke Kishi majored in law and graduated with top honors; a friend recalls that he also "drank a lot of sake and knew a great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki...
...black umbrella, he commuted between his modest home in suburban Shinjuku and a governmental beehive in Tokyo's busy Kasumigaseki district. Though he looked and acted like all the others, his quick wit and swift grasp of facts and situations won him a new nickname: "The Razor...
...source was the Washington Post's hard-hitting editorial cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 50, whose graphic commentaries on the national scene often cut as if they were drawn with a razor...
Though A.S.R. is the second largest (after Gillette) razor-blade manufacturer in the U.S., until recently it has suffered from unimaginative marketing policies. With its extensive advertising, promotion and consumer-research programs, Philip Morris hopes to beef up A.S.R. sales; other consumer-product possibilities for the new combine are candy, shaving creams and men's toiletries...