Word: seikatsu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
Said Tokuzo lida, 41, bookstore owner: "Yoshida now calls for taibo seikatsu, but most of us are already living on the bare minimum." Then he added, with wistful pride: "Still, it's a long time since we had an air force...
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