Word: yamashita
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...Schnorr and captain Paul Catinella climaxed their home careers at Harvard with victories that gave the Crimson the early lead. Schnorr blitzed John Eure at 118. 8-0, in his best bout of the season. while Catinella scored a takedown with 20 seconds left to nip Yamashita...
...company near bankruptcy. An eleven-day fire in its offshore platform had cost the cash-short firm $780,000. and stockholders had refused to ante up any more capital. Now, flushed with the glow of sudden prosperity and the promise of Japanese government help, Arabian Oil President Taro Yamashita plans to sink 42 more wells in the next four years, expects to spend an additional $167 million to supply Japan with a third of its 240-million-barrel annual petroleum requirement...
...cannot afford streamers have taken to looting department-store powder rooms of rolls of toilet paper on which they scribble lipsticked love messages, such as daite ageru wayo (I shall hold you), before sending the tissue arching over the footlights. The top rockabilly stars-Masaaki Hirao, 20; Keijiro Yamashita, 19; Micky Curtis, 18, the son of an English father and an English-Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They have learned their art from listening to U.S. records of Elvis Presley, though sometimes the lyrics suffer a transoceanic...
...commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender of General Yamashita's 40,000 Japanese troops, by 1951 was back in Europe as SHAPE'S chief of logistics. The next year Leavey doffed his uniform, joined I.T.&T., rose to boss of its overseas manufacturing subsidiary...
Aboard the ship also went 17 black wooden boxes containing the ashes of war criminals whose death sentences had already been carried out. Conspicuously missing: the bodies of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya," who was hanged unceremoniously in February 1946, and Lieut. General Masaharu Homma of Bataan death march notoriety, who was shot by a firing squad. Their bodies could not be found in a sugarcane field where they were thought to have been buried...