Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feudal lords supported a "Southern Emperor" named Go-Daigo and a "Northern Emperor" named Kogon (both members of the imperial family). The issue was threshed out in a 50-year "War of the Chrysanthemums." Finally Go-Daigo's line gave up the sacred symbols of authority-jewel, mirror, sword-to Kogon's line. Since then, in the misty eye of Japanese history, the imperial descent has been strictly legitimate...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto actually never boasted that he would dictate peace in the White House-quite the contrary, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported; the sword-rattling Japanese Government had simply twisted Yamamoto's remarks. Said Nimitz: newly discovered Japanese documents prove that the Jap admiral was trying to warn his people that in any war on the U.S. "to make victory certain we will have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House...
...there is not a single one of the combatants who is spared the shameful experience of fear. The heroes quake like everybody else. . . . By its very blindness, destiny establishes a kind of justice. Blind also is she who decrees to warriors punishment in kind. He that takes the sword, will perish by the sword. The Iliad formulated the principle long before the Gospels did, and in almost the same terms...
...Hence we see men in arms behaving harshly and madly. We see their sword bury itself in the breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them...
Hirohito, keeping abreast of the times, packed his Army and Navy uniforms in mothballs, stored his samurai sword...