Word: sensei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
...Sympathy. Though some of his colleagues still call him Denka (Your Imperial Highness, or Honorable Member of the Imperial Palace), most of his students have learned to address him as Sensei (Learned One). They have also learned that if they go to the cafeteria after class, they are apt to find him chatting away over a favorite dish that is now known as Prince Noodles. Then, with a friendly nod, the new professor departs-followed by an attendant whose solemn duty it is to tell him exactly what was wrong with his morning lecture...
Last week, as vacation time approached, Prince Mikasa decided to turn his last class into a tea party. "Have fun," he advised his students. "That's what vacations are for." But did the Denka intend to make a career of being a Sensei? Says Mikasa: "At first, I was so nervous and I spoke so fast that I had a tendency to stutter and mumble. But now I think I should make a pretty good professor...