Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
...followed. The Political Association of Great Japan, the nation's totalitarian party, prepared to disband-and to reorganize under new colors. The East Asia Federation, a patriotic society, made ready to enter politics; its leader seemed likely to be fanatical Lieut. General Kanji Ishihara, a retired Kwantung Army sword-rattler who helped plot the Manchurian adventure...
Douglas MacArthur paid no noticeable attention. He announced that the 700-year-old blade once sported by General Tomoyuki Yamashita was being sent out to West Point. Annapolis will get the sword once carried by Vice Admiral Denshichi Okochi...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...
...Generalissimo was pledged to establish the social and humanistic democracy envisaged by Sun Yatsen. He no longer sought unity by the sword. In 1941 he had proclaimed: "At no future time could there conceivably be another campaign for the suppression of the Communists." Last March he had reaffirmed his policy of seeking "a political solution" to the Communist problem...