Word: warriorism
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...salesman is a more pallid?but also more successful?descendant of two other Japanese prototypes. One was the swashbuckling wako, or warrior-trader, who began plundering Asia as early as the 14th century. The second was the soldier-bureaucrat who went to war a generation ago to develop a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," stretching from Manchuria to Burma. His slogan was "Asia for the Asiatics," but his purpose was really to furnish Japan's factories not only with raw materials but also with vast markets for their goods. Today the Japanese have come closer to establishing an informal...
MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling...
...Yardlings quickly took advantage of Merrimack's misfortunes. David Hynes fished a puck out of a seramble in front of the Warrior net and piked it in to even the game at 2-2 with 11:26 gone in the second period...
...McManama shot a pass out to Steve Harris in front of the Warrior net, and Harris slid the puck into the Merrimack goal to give Harvard the lead for the first time...
...cannot bring himself to tell even one person his right name. What he can bring himself to do is go to bed with everything female he sees. It is his chief way of relating because it is his most effective form of combat. The black lover is a true warrior, he tells himself, and "fighting every day with the foreknowledge that he can never be the victor makes him victorious every moment of his life...