Word: sato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee hung oil paintings in the heretofore severely plain corridors and party offices of the Diet building. The largest party (the Socialists) got the largest picture, Tea Maidens. The Communists (four members of the Diet) got the smallest, Summer, a lady with a pink parasol. Said Committee Chairman Kanjiro Sato: "At first we thought the women members would create a quieting influence. But we were mistaken...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...
Professor Saichi Sato, who wrote one, was a GHQ interpreter in the occupation's early days, and briefly published a Japanese imitation of TIME. Some definitions in Sato's go-page, pocket-size Dictionary of Current Americanism, New Words...
Slangs: acorn-to experience adversity; allot upon-to intend; agazed-astonished; acceptress-a girl who says yes right away. One word (chic) Sato couldn't define but could use in a sentence: "You'll be a chic before you are heck to flying...
Some of the pictures, like Kei Sato's fierce tangle of men and bayonets entitled Deadly Struggle in the Jungle, were mere studio nightmares. Sato had pictured the U.S. enemy in World War I uniforms, with gas masks and doughboy helmets. He based his ideas of U.S. equipment on obsolete materiel the Japs captured in the Philippines...