Word: tori
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen home in ten years. All of us have been prisoners for four. We have made the greatest sacrifice." The 2,000 chorused: "Sono tori [exactly]!" The captain barked: "Full of hope, we have come to build a new democratic Japan on the Potsdam agreement." The men thundered: "Yoshi [good...
...Tokyo radio crackled out: "Many enemy planes raided Minami Tori shima† at dawn today." With amazing promptness the U.S. Navy verified Tokyo's announcement, but added: "No report has been received from the raiding force and it is presumed that there will be none until need for radio silence ceases to exist." Except for a second broadcast from Tokyo that 90 "Grumman fighters" and "about 60 carrier bombers" and two carriers had taken part in the assault, the silence was still unbroken at week's end. The attack could have had one or a number of objectives...
...TIME, Feb. 9), it had smashed the daylights out of two Jap bases. One of them was Wake Island, where 378 Marines had held out for 14 gallant days, second stop beyond Pearl Harbor in the reach to Jap-held Guam and Manila. The other was Marcus Island (Minama Tori Shima to the Japanese), only 1,150 miles from Tokyo...