Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost nothing else but the "Inevitability of a Russo-Japanese War." Their militant chatter reached such a pitch last week that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was moved to step in and soft-pedal it. In his first interview since his elevation to the Cabinet as successor to the sword-rattling Araki, General Hayashi kept a straight face while he told the Associated Press...
...reptile;" he laughed at the Tories, then cursed them; and he stirred the people. But if he had lived today, he would have found a new enemy, and faced a struggle for which he could have found no words. One can no longer put an edge on the verbal sword, and dash up intellectual Bunker Hills; if one did, one would trip over the scabbard. Any one who tries to give battle at the present day can echo the despairing words of Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there...
...bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies heavily infested with lice. . . . "Bayonet and sword cuts with frequent powder burns gave evidence of close fighting. There were no victims or evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots...
Calling Chancellor Hitler a man bent on achieving Germany's destiny "by fire and sword," calling Japan "the darkest storm cloud on the political horizon," Comrade Litvinoff said flatly: "I disagree with President Roosevelt when he says that only 8% of the people in the world want war. Those 8% are the people in power in certain countries. . . . Between Germany and Japan exists a common spirituality-a desire to fight...
...University of South Dakota Yukithi Yoshida, student, who appears daily on the campus as a Japanese prince in uniform and sword, was made the victim of a practical joke. In princely rage Yukithi Yoshida drew a pistol, shot the jokester through the hand...