Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...
Heavy infantry assaults were repulsed by the greatly outnumbered American-Filipino forces while across Manila Bay from Bataan concealed Japanese short batteries, which have been hammering at American island fortifications for three days, were subject to effective counter-fire...
...little corner of made-in-Japan hell on Bataan Peninsula, Douglas MacArthur's American-Filipino Army clung grimly to the last U.S. soil on Luzon. The Jap charged and charged again. He was thrown back. Through the jungles he filtered by squads and smaller groups. Usually he came to an ugly end, but often he did plenty of damage before he died...
Exceptional correspondent is U.P.'s Frank Hewlett (former acting Manila bureau chief). Whereas the others hitchhike, he sports a Chevrolet sedan with a small Filipino chauffeur named Hoolio. Grinning Hoolio has been nicknamed the "Sage of Bataan...
...Jesuit Mission Press in Manhattan dug up this ancient history in reporting that today's Japanese invasion has brought 6,000 Filipino lepers on the blockaded island of Culion near starvation...