Word: shiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a half-minute. That night, figuring that he would surely break the records for 800 and 1,000 meters on his way to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter final, dockers were ready to time him at those distances. But it was a teammate, Shiro Hashizume, who was ahead at 800 and 1,000 meters, and who set the new world marks. Then Furuhashi overhauled his teammate and won the race...
...Japan last week, 127,000 hollow-cheeked boys and girls stood patiently in queues. The boys and girls were students, waiting their turn to be examined for entrance into the nation's 89 universities and colleges. In the Tokyo line-up was Shiro Suzuki, 20, an ex-soldier...
...volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed by U.S. planes based in the Aleutians...
Only Jap unit identified by last week was Lieut. General Shiro Makino's 16th Division. But it was now obvious that Jap strength was far more than a division. Even before Makino's men were reinforced, General MacArthur had counted 12,000 Japs killed, estimated 18,000 wounded. U.S. casualties by last midweek were still low: 3,221 (including 976 killed or missing...
...John R. Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...