Word: shima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...
...event that Cook has to be replaced by Martin, Lockwood will move in to second base, and Dick Shima will take over in rightfield...
Shigenobu Shima, Minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Japan to the United States, presented the Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mrs. Warner. The award was conferred by the Emperor of Japan...
...Japan, the sovereign remedy for despair is suicide. Last week a young Japanese lover named Satoru Takayanagi, ill with tuberculosis, journeyed with his true love, Waitress Setsumi Endo, 59 miles south of Tokyo to the island of O Shima, site of famed "Suicide Point." As they climbed to the edge of the volcanic crater of Mount Mihara, they were met by a suspicious detective, who asked what was on their minds. "If you want to pry into our private lives," answered young Takayanagi, "get a warrant." When the detective had gone, the young lovers joined hands and leaped into...
...blank range, fired their torpedoes and wheeled away, and Oldendorf opened up with his big guns. The small boys sank two enemy battleships and several destroyers, and crippled two cruisers that night; not a U.S. destroyer was lost. Oldendorf's big ships finished the job, and Vice Admiral Shima turned back, his fleet shattered...