Word: samurais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels trampled and jostled each other to get places in line. Japanese boys seemed to enjoy the spectacle as they opened packing cases of field sabers, the poor man's samurai sword, and stacked them for the issuing officers. Lieutenant colonels and colonels got an extra dividend: a pair of binoculars...
...receptionists report that you're interested in postwar housing ("We were swamped with inquiries about the Model Home display. Quite a few visitors came back with friends . . .")-in war trophies ("People came in especially to see the Samurai swords and Nazi banners . . .'')-in museums and picture galleries ("We're constantly being asked about special art exhibits around town-and many people have wanted to buy one or another of the Floyd and Gladys Rockmore Davis paintings we're showing currently here in the Center...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...
...salutes were exchanged as the Japanese Deputy Chief of Staff in China, Major General Takeo Imai, his gloved hand resting on the jeweled hilt of his oversize samurai sword, stepped stiffly into a Chinese Army jeep. His six aides and their luggage (briefcases, tins of tea, fruit juices, U.S. crabmeat) followed...
Next day, over a formal cup of tea, he bade farewell to the Generalissimo. He declined the offer of a high Chinese decoration. He attended a final cocktail party with his staff, packed his dumbbells, captured samurai sword and traveling gear...