Word: jingoistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a shocked compatriot on shore remembered how these men had sailed away, in the days of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, with a similar purposeful spirit and disciplined jingoist chants. The official welcoming party-talkative bureaucrats, beaming Red Cross nurses, bustling newsmen-waited on a bare wooden dock in Maizuru harbor, with blue, cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen...
...Freedom Movement," Israel's newest and potentially most dangerous party, led by Menachim Beigin, former commander of Irgun. Frankly jingoist, it demands a Jewish state including all of Palestine. Cried Beigin last week: "It is not a real peace while . . . the Arab legions stand on the Hill of the Holy Temple." His party violently denounces Ben-Gurion's peace efforts, attacks him as a seeker of power and prestige. "Have you heard?" runs one joke launched by Beigin's party: "Stalin is having delusions of grandeur. He walks up & down, beating his chest and saying...
Progressive Party leader Takao Saito reminded the flattered conquerors that the Emperor's powers had in practice always been nominal. No matter what the Constitution said about sovereignty or disarmament, jingoist leaders might be able to capture the substance of power again...