Word: soto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Ford has designed a new Lincoln model to fill the competitive gap left by the Lincoln Zephyr, abandoned in 1941. Next week, Ben Ford will bring out his new Mercury. It has been spruced up to make it a stouter competitor to De Soto, Pontiac, and the light Oldsmobiles and Buicks. It is bigger and will probably cost more than the 1948 Mercury...
...Balkan Commission flew into loannina last week and, accompanied by reporters, started for the fighting zone in a pea-green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...
...Life. Government files contain reports on the miseries of Lota-its mine galleries reaching out under the sea, its underhoused town, its undernourished children. One of the reports says that no Chilean family can subsist on less than 65 pesos ($2.60) daily. But 33-year-old Juan Soto, a typical miner, who has dug Lota's coal for 16 years, gets 30 pesos for an eight-hour day's work. Neither he nor his wife and three small children remember having ever bought cheese or fruit, but they do get some milk...
...practices of peace returned to Hawaii last week. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. military authorities in Hawaii had no scruples about interning 878 Japanese aliens and Jisho Yamazaki. Yamazaki was a priest of the Buddhist Soto cult, which played a great part in whipping up Jap militarism...
After V-J day, Yamazaki was released. Promptly, he loosed a torrent of postcards, letters, and speeches. The Japanese had won the war, he claimed. He hoped to guide the Japanese in Hawaii, which, he said, the Jap fleet was "watching," back into the path of Soto righteousness. He exhorted: "You should be, like Lord Buddha, strong and ruling the universe as the most superior ones...