Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese diplomats try hard to act by Occidental standards of hard-headed opportunism, always end the Oriental way: face first, facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled a hot lava of diplomatic hate on Great Britain over a comparatively microscopic incident - the stopping of the liner Asama Maru by a British cruiser while 21 German reservists were taken off (TIME...
...kinds of students, he figured. There are those who work, and there are those who don't. Those who work know their stiff and don't learn anything from examinations. Those who don't work cram in the last minute and exhale their knowledge in a heavy sigh after the ordeal is over. Ergo; it can't be the students who gain anything from examinations. They just take and excrete them like castor...