Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about. A few days later he went to Bandung, collapsed with pernicious anemia, and died. Javanese natives were impressed...
...empty cupboards. Yet the aid of a country usually quick to relieve suffering wherever it may be has been held up by a remarkable amount of dissension and debate. There have been conflicting reports thick as snowflakes as to the seriousness of the food shortage; there have ben rash and hasty prophecies of the abuses and misdirection into which food relief would fall...
...with the sickles and the reaping hooks . . . and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles. . . ." However he may fancy himself as a leftist sympathizer, as a great and sensitive artist Ernest Hemingway is well over the Red rash. The bell in this book tolls for all mankind...
...That's no Shwayder talk," quipped Hu. "As a football prognosticator you'd be good at the keystone Czak. Laine any bets on the Crimson Saturday? Don't MacKinney rash predictions...
...This rash decision wrecked the conference, and put an end to any immediate hope for stabilized international exchange. ... It thus weakened the structure of the democratic world and opened the way to the aggressive designs of Hitler...