Word: tojo
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...posters that are most familiar and redolent of the American $ mood over the years. "Keep 'Em on the Run" crys a World War II poster bearing crude caricatures of Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. In a 1971 Viet Nam- era placard, a Marine drill sergeant braces new recruits with a more subdued slogan: "We Don't Promise You a Rose Garden...
...drums out in the center of the field -- everything but a wing walker. The older the pilot, it seemed, the more kisses he blew the crowd upon touchdown. When the B-25s came over, Anderson told the audience that "they're the ones that stuck the first pin in Tojo. We were whipped dogs, folks, before they did what they did for morale...
...Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...
DIED. Katsuko Tojo, 91, widow of Japan's World War II Prime Minister and Imperial Army commander, General Hideki Tojo; in Tokyo. Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 for war crimes, never discussed affairs of state with his wife, and she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor (which he personally ordered) on the radio. She led a quiet life out of the public eye (though one son last year was named president of Mitsubishi Motors) and remained unwaveringly loyal to his memory...
After Kilroy crushed Tojo and Hitler, and sailed home en masse, all the nation came down to the docks: to wave the flag, to weep, to gather its own back into the American embrace...