Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night he and his crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...
Some people might say that the downfall of Fusao Negishi was due to unsettled postwar conditions, or to his own greed. But Negishi himself would probably maintain that it was due to his wife's petulant desire for a vacation in the country...
When Japan launched the Greater East Asia War, Negishi, a skilled mechanic who had saved a little money, decided to go into business on his own. Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old youngster (the brother of the girl at the inn) who happened to be a pickpocket by profession. One day, when Negishi wondered aloud how he would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers...
After four years of Soviet captivity, shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...