Word: yoko
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...Yoko garbi, in which two-or three-man teams carry short, sickle-shaped wicker baskets. These chisteras, used for both catching and throwing, add a wicked impetus to the pelota...
Whenever he could spare the money, which was seldom enough, Yonosuke Itakura, a poverty-stricken job printer, sent his sickly daughter Yoko from Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone. There, one day last summer, a landslide roared down the mountains burying the child, her mother and eight others beneath a varicolored rubble of clay, pumice, granite boulders and choking volcanic ash. Rescue workers searched among the debris for bodies, but before the remains of Yoko and her mother were found, the search was abandoned. Yonosuke and his sons...
...schools in line with the feudal principle that boys are superior beings. "At first I was bewildered and frightened," said Reiko Yasuda, a slight, pretty eleventh-grader, "but after I got used to it I found it a challenge to try to keep up with the boys." Another coed, Yoko Kira, added: "Coeducation is very enjoyable...
...lines to remind TIME readers that a majority of Japanese opinion disagrees with Yoko Fukushima's letter [TIME, March 24], when she thinks 25-30 years occupation by U.S. does much good to Japan. Everybody, including Japanese, admires the great works done by General MacArthur. His directives and orders are carried out to a letter by law-abiding Japanese, and no serious incidents . . . hampered his occupation policy. We are behaving ourselves like a "good loser," and are proud...
...independent people, if we still are, the shorter the occupation term is, the happier we are. Fortunately, General MacArthur favors an early withdrawal of occupation troops to the disheartening of Miss Yoko's un-Japanese feeling...