Word: goto
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...habit of Shigeru Miyoshi, 41, a foundry foreman, and Saburo Goto, 44, a druggist, to go fishing on Sundays. On this particular Sunday the catch was good-a basket of squirming silver carp-and Goto suggested a drink to celebrate. Reluctantly, Miyoshi declined. He was due on the foundry night shift. The two parted, never to see each other again. At 8:15 the next morning, Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb exploded 1,870 ft. over Hiroshima...
...child. Three of his children, who were at home, had simply vanished. A fourth died a week later of radiation poisoning. Of the original family of seven, only Miyoshi and his eldest daughter, who had been away from home, survived the atomic fire storm. Dead, too, was his friend Goto...