Word: unhandsomest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ginza Goes. Actually Emperor Hirohito's property was only touched-this time. The Ginza, Tokyo's retail thoroughfare (once called "the busiest, noisiest, unhandsomest and most flamboyant of metropolitan streets"), was reported a mass of flames. Tokyo Week has cost the U.S. 31 Superfortresses or $18,600,000 in equipment and something for which there was no price-the lives of about 350 men. Since the B-29 attacks began, six months ago, the U.S. had lost 74 Superfortresses, carrying some 800 airmen. Japan had lost more than one-fifth of its capital...
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