Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incomprehensible devotion to self-destruction Japanese military fanatics are building up to a super-Wagnerian climax which might result, if carried to its mad extreme, in the virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...
...duty in Rome, Mrs. McCormick shuns correspondent's uniform, but also suppresses her yen for exotic hats. She lives in the Grand Hotel with the rest of the Times staff, where she rubs elbows with senior Allied officers, high Italian political and social figures. As one correspondent remarked, "She looks as though she ought to be home minding grandbaby or puttering around in the garden, but you change your mind when she starts talking...
...Sotaro Ishiwata, Finance Minister. He was beaver-busy piling up yen for war in the Cabinet of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939). It was then too that he established his record as a liberal. He opposed the Japanese alliance with Germany...
Model Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front...
...first U.S. educational encyclopedia in 31 years is the new 9O2-page, 4½-lb. Encyclopedia of Modern Education (The Philosophical Library, $10), edited by Harry N. Rivlin of New York City's Queens College. Its articles from Abnormality to Yen, James Yang-ch'u (TIME, Nov. 22) cover just about everything of current academic interest, generally in English plain enough for parents who want to know what teachers...