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  • Hiroshima, Mao.†   (source)
  • A month or so passed, and then one evening during a party, I happened to mention to Nobu that Mameha had arranged for me to appear in a festival in Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Or for that matter to Hiroshima and Chernobyl.†   (source)
  • His on-thescene reportage of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was incredible.†   (source)
  • Not many Americans knew how much worse it had been than Hiroshima, for instance.†   (source)
  • And what about incinerating Hiroshima and Nagasaki?†   (source)
  • These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations — Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin — bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev also knows quite well that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.†   (source)
  • That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier.†   (source)
  • She was in Hiroshima when the United States Air Force dropped an atom bomb on that city in an attempt to end World War II.†   (source)
  • It was, ironically, the news of Hiroshima that made our lives easier.†   (source)
  • But one day in the classroom the professor of philosophy was blithely expounding on the illusory nature of the world for what seemed the fiftieth time and Phaedrus raised his hand and asked coldly if it was believed that the atomic bombs that had dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were illusory.†   (source)
  • I had my degree in nuclear engineering and had been stationed at Los Alamos and also did some work on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.†   (source)
  • While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end.†   (source)
  • She is half Japanese, and the story I heard is that her mother was a Hiroshima baby.†   (source)
  • Even more wrenching to recount, I, too, had come to Okinawa only days after Eddie had perished (who knows, I have often wondered, perhaps scant hours after he took his mortal wound), to encounter no enemy, no fear, no danger at all, but, through the grace of history, a wrecked yet peaceful Oriental landscape across which I would wander unscathed and unthreatened during the last few weeks before Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • John Falconer, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, looked out as Hiroshima neared.   (source)
    Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
  • It hits the surface with a force one billion times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.   (source)
  • On August 9, Nagasaki, like Hiroshima, disappeared.   (source)
  • Among the cities listed on the leaflets were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.   (source)
  • A few of the trains slipped past Hiroshima.   (source)
  • Tibbets spoke over the interphone: "It's Hiroshima."   (source)
  • A guard said something to Louie that stuck in his head: Hiroshima had been hit by cholera.   (source)
  • Hiroshima had 140,000 dead, Nagasaki 70,000.   (source)
    Hiroshima = city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
  • Cut that in half and then slam the two pieces together by high explosive in a confined steel space, like a rocket or a bomb, and right there it's Hiroshima all over again.   (source)
  • The men fell silent, piecing together the rumors of one giant bomb vaporizing Hiroshima and the abrupt end to the war.   (source)
    Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
  • Below it, Hiroshima was boiling.   (source)
  • His target was Hiroshima.   (source)
  • A lot of them know now how much worse it was than Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • The entire area around Hiroshima, mainly devoted to agriculture, was suffering a severe depression.†   (source)
  • The atom bomb—the Thunderbolt—had turned Hiroshima into a desert.†   (source)
  • The Hiroshima A-bomb used the gun method.†   (source)
  • The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people.†   (source)
  • Ka-ke, a small town in Hiroshima-ken, on the island of Honshu.†   (source)
  • There's no way it's as small a yield as with Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • In 1958 the statue was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Park.†   (source)
  • While I was striving to become Miss America of 1947, he was wishing I'd be Miss Hiroshima of 1904.†   (source)
  • Many still died from the disease, even though the atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima nine years before.†   (source)
  • ' One of the things Rumfoord had told Lily to get in Boston was a copy of President Harry S. Truman's announcement to the world that an atomic bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Hiroshima got hit with a thirteen-kiloton yield and they only used sixty kilograms of uranium and of that only six hundred milligrams actually reacted; that's about the weight of a dime.†   (source)
  • So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base.†   (source)
  • And if he sees such looks in Tokyo, what might he not see in the eyes of those who survived the leveling and the ash heap of Hiroshima?†   (source)
  • The last hope that something might postpone our returning to the outside world was extinguished on August 6 when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • His father, who had been a public official, ended up running a "teahouse" in Hiroshima—something like a cabaret.†   (source)
  • Ka-ke, Near Hiroshima: April 1946.†   (source)
  • I see it now as a sad, homemade version of the samurai sword his great-greatgrandfather carried in the land around Hiroshima, at a time when such warriors weren't much needed anymore, when their swords were both their virtue and their burden.†   (source)
  • They slept until about two, when they were awakened by the roar of the planes going over Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • WAS he, nine years later, in Hiroshima, still so happy-go-lucky?†   (source)
  • He told her of a good orphanage in Hiroshima called the Garden of Light.†   (source)
  • Hiroshima doctors had wanted to know why the Maidens were not operated on in Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Dr Fujii said, 'It's hard to be cautious in Hiroshima these days.†   (source)
  • They called in one of the best doctors they knew, a Professor Myanishi, from Hiroshima University.†   (source)
  • Some of the wounded in Hiroshima were unable to enjoy the questionable luxury of hospitalization.†   (source)
  • Yes, people of Hiroshima died manly in the atomic bombing, believing that it was for Emperor's sake.†   (source)
  • Keiji lived with his parents, in a house that Dr.Fujii had built next to the Hiroshima clinic.†   (source)
  • Almost no one in Hiroshima recalls hearing any noise of the bomb†   (source)
  • He loved fried prawns and ate them when he went to Hiroshima for checkups.†   (source)
  • He had graduated and returned to Hiroshima shortly before the bombing.†   (source)
  • His friend Tani asked him to donate it to the church in Hiroshima, and he did.†   (source)
  • The doctors in Hiroshima shook their heads.†   (source)
  • One cloud in the father's life was a quarrel in the Hiroshima Lions Club, of which he was president.†   (source)
  • A woman named Shizue Masugi now visited Hiroshima from Tokyo.†   (source)
  • On the way, two days later, at Yokogawa a stop just before Hiroshima, Dr Fujii bearded the train.†   (source)
  • Once each week, he took a train to Hiroshima and went to the Red Cross Hospital for a checkup.†   (source)
  • If there is a real air raid here in Hiroshima, I want to die with our country.†   (source)
  • Then he heard about a vacant private clinic in Kaitaichi, a suburb to the east of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • A few days after the anniversary, Norman Cousins visited Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • In Hiroshima he had been one of thousands of sufferers; in Tokyo he was a curiosity.†   (source)
  • DR. SASAKI began to be considered a bit strange by Hiroshima doctors.†   (source)
  • The appeal of Hiroshima ...has nothing to do with politics.†   (source)
  • He expected all the doctors of Hiroshima to come to him, because he was so rich and so famous for giving his money away.†   (source)
  • This was a job of collecting money for deliveries of the Hiroshima paper, the Chugoku Shimbun, which most people in the city read.†   (source)
  • The next day, Mrs Nakamura, although she was too ill to walk much, returned to Hiroshima alone, by electric car to the outskirts, by foot from there.†   (source)
  • On her trip to Hiroshima, she asked Kiyoshi Tanimoto what most needed to be done for women who were hibakusha.†   (source)
  • The Japanese scientists thought they knew the exact height at which the bomb at Hiroshima was exploded and the approximate weight of the uranium used.†   (source)
  • After that, he heard that an older brother had been trying to trace them through the post office in Ujina, a suburb of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • So I went to Hiroshima railway station.†   (source)
  • The Society of Jesus had been the first institution to build a relatively permanent shanty in the ruins of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • In September 1953, Norman Cousins arrived in Hiroshima with his wife to deliver some moral-adoption funds.†   (source)
  • A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb.†   (source)
  • In 1948, he built a new clinic, in Hiroshima, on the site of the one that had been ruined by the bomb.†   (source)
  • ...The people of Hiroshima were in fact, to a man, totally unaware of Kiyoshi Tanimoto's (and now Norman Cousins') proposal.†   (source)
  • The Planning Conference, at a loss as to just what importance Hiroshima could have, fell back on rather vague cultural and paving projects.†   (source)
  • Eventually, in the States, without thinking to check with Mayor Shinzo Hamai or anyone else in Hiroshima, he drafted a memorandum sketching this idea.†   (source)
  • At Hiroshima station, he picked up what he loved best to read as he travelled — timetables with schedules of trains going all over Honshu Island.†   (source)
  • She made a gesture which took in her shrunken leg, the other patients in her room, and Hiroshima as a whole.†   (source)
  • In June, he read an article in the Hiroshima Chugoku warning survivors against working too hard — but what could he do?†   (source)
  • Besides the Hiroshima hundred, there were huge crowds of women from other cities on the shrine grounds.†   (source)
  • She returned home, lit the stove in the kitchen, set some rice to cook, and sat down to read that morning's Hiroshima Chugoku.†   (source)
  • As the fortieth anniversary of the bombing approached, the Hiroshima peace center was nominally still in place — now in the Tanimoto home.†   (source)
  • Later, some of them had been taken, as so-called Hiroshima Maidens, to the United States for plastic surgery.†   (source)
  • In Hiroshima, she had been given two days to uproot herself — and the four children she and her husband now had — and get to Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • ' Many citizens of Hiroshima, however, continued to feel a hatred for Americans which nothing could possibly erase.†   (source)
  • On the electric car, quite by chance, she ran into her younger sister, who had not been in Hiroshima the day of the bombing.†   (source)
  • Not just a patch of Koi, as he expected, but as much of Hiroshima as he could see through the clouded air was giving off a thick, dreadful miasma.†   (source)
  • Yaeko was married to a doctor who owned his own clinic in Hiroshima, and Sister Sasaki could go to him if she needed a doctor.†   (source)
  • It would be impossible to say what horrors were embedded in the minds of the children who lived through the day of the bombing of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • His grandfather having deposited large sums in the Bank of Hiroshima, Dr. Sasaki went to it confidently expecting a big loan to help him get started.†   (source)
  • MAY WELL TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TRIP TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HIROSHIMA MEMORIAL PEACE CENTER, HIS PET PROJECT.†   (source)
  • When foreigners come to Hiroshima, you often hear them say, "The politicians of the world should come to Hiroshima and contemplate the world's political problems on their knees before this Cenotaph.†   (source)
  • ABOUT once a year during this time, Sasaki-san traveled from Kyushu to Hiroshima to see her brother and sister, and, always, to call on Father Kleinsorge, now Takakura, at the Misasa church.†   (source)
  • Judging by the many maimed soldiers Mr Tanimoto had seen during the day, he surmised that the barracks had been badly damaged by whatever it was that had hit Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing fever of outrage in the country, the provision of adequate medical care for the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs finally became a political issue.†   (source)
  • Her ashes were carried to her family when the first group of Maidens returned to Hiroshima that summer of 1956, and it fell to Father Takakura to preside at her funeral.†   (source)
  • On August 6th, the tenth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Tanimoto placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.†   (source)
  • It was several days before the survivors of Hiroshima knew they had company, because the Japanese radio and newspapers were being extremely cautious on the subject of the strange weapon.†   (source)
  • In Hiroshima, the early postwar years were, besides, a time, especially painful for poor people like her, of disorder, hunger, greed, thievery, black markets.†   (source)
  • She had seen so much death in Hiroshima after the bombing, and had seen what strange things so many people did when they were cornered by death, that nothing now surprised or frightened her.†   (source)
  • FOUR Panic Grass and Feverfew ON 18 August, twelve days after the bomb burst, Father Kleinsorge set out on foot for Hiroshima from the Novitiate with his papier-mache suitcase in his hand.†   (source)
  • His brother had been killed in the war, so the way was clear for him — not only to start a practice in his father's town but also to withdraw from Hiroshima and, in effect, from being a hibakusha.†   (source)
  • THE DAY before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the city, in fear of incendiary raids, had put hundreds of schoolgirls to work helping to tear down houses and clear fire lanes.†   (source)
  • 'Miss Kayoko Nobutoki, a student of girl's high school, Hiroshima Jazabuin, and a daughter of my church member, was taking rest with her friends beside the heavy fence of the Buddhist Temple.†   (source)
  • It was that the atomic bomb had deposited some sort of poison on Hiroshima which would give off deadly emanations for seven years; nobody could go there all that time.†   (source)
  • About a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumour reached Hiroshima — that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.†   (source)
  • This was the first chance she had had to look at the ruins of Hiroshima; the last time she had been carried through the city's streets, she had been hovering on the edge of unconsciousness.†   (source)
  • She was taken ashore at Hatsukaichi, a town several miles to the south-west of Hiroshima, and put in the Goddess of Mercy Primary School, which had been turned into a hospital.†   (source)
  • He said quite coldly that he was sorry, but this was a hospital for operative surgical cases only, and because she had no gangrene, she would have to return to Hiroshima that night.†   (source)
  • Yaeko, the older daughter, left Hiroshima when she was fifteen, right after graduating from middle school, to help an ailing aunt who ran a ryokan, a Japanese-style inn.†   (source)
  • Because her leg did not improve but swelled more and more, the doctors at the school bound it with crude splints and took her by car, on g September, to the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • THREE Details are being investigated Early in the evening of the day the bomb exploded, a Japanese naval launch moved slowly up and down the seven rivers of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • He lived in a snug little house with a radio and two television sets, a washing machine, an electric oven, and a refrigerator, and he had a compact Mazda automobile, manufactured in Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • He thought of a hillock in the rayon man's garden from which he could get a view of the whole of Koi — of the whole of Hiroshima, for that matter — and he ran back up to the estate.†   (source)
  • After a visit to an orphanage, Cousins returned to the States with yet another idea — for "moral adoption" of Hiroshima orphans by Americans, who would send financial support for the children.†   (source)
  • INCOMING TELEGRAM: CONFIDENTIAL FROM: TOKYO TO: SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 12, 1955 EMBASSY-USIS SHARE WASHINGTON CONCERN LEST HIROSHIMA GIRLS PROJECT GENERATE UNFAVORABLE PUBLICITY.†   (source)
  • DURING this period, Father Takakura was one of many people whom Dr. Robert J. Lifton interviewed in preparing to write his book Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • They were actually drops of condensed moisture falling from the turbulent tower of dust, heat, and fission fragments that had already risen miles into the sky above Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • In a report of this meeting, the Hiroshima paper Chugoku Shimbun reported, "Rev. Tanimoto responded, 'I was following Mr. Cousins's instructions in this, not my own wishes.'†   (source)
  • Now he was using it to carry the yen belonging to the Society of Jesus to the Hiroshima branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank, already reopened in its half-ruined building.†   (source)
  • By 1977, Dr. Sasaki's credit with the Bank of Hiroshima had soared, and it granted him a loan of nineteen million yen, or about eighty thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • He had boasted, when he was in charge of the district air-raid defences, that fire might eat away all of Hiroshima but it would never come to Nobori-cho.†   (source)
  • They estimated that even with the primitive bomb used at Hiroshima, it would require a shelter of concrete fifty Inches thick to protect a human being entirely from radiation sickness.†   (source)
  • In 1955, he paid the entrance fee of a hundred and fifty thousand yen, then a little more than four hundred dollars, to join the exclusive Hiroshima Country Club.†   (source)
  • At the time the so-called Hiroshima Maidens had gone to the United States for plastic surgery, the year before, they were accompanied by two Hiroshima surgeons.†   (source)
  • , had been charred at forty-four hundred yards from the center; and that the surface of grey clay tiles of the type used in Hiroshima, whose melting point is 1,3000C.†   (source)
  • On that day, in Hiroshima itself, far away from him, a genuine Japanese peace movement, riding the anger over the Lucky Dragon incident, got under way.†   (source)
  • As chief of surgery at the Hiroshima hospital, Dr. Hattori had been Dr. Sasaki's boss there; he had come down with radiation sickness after the bombing and had moved to Yokohama.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to be done until January 4th; everything in Hiroshima would be shut down tight for the three-day New Year's holiday, and hospital services would be at a minimum.†   (source)
  • He had heard uncomfortably detailed accounts of mass raids on Kure, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, and other nearby towns; he was sure Hiroshima's turn would come soon.†   (source)
  • It came to Mrs Nakamura's attention that a carpenter from Kabe was building a number of wooden shanties in Hiroshima which he rented for fifty yen a month — $3.33 at the fixed rate of exchange.†   (source)
  • Miss Sasaki lay in steady pain in the Goddess of Mercy Primary School, at Hatsukaichi, the fourth station to the south-west of Hiroshima on the electric train.†   (source)
  • "This is Hiroshima," Edwards said as a mushroom cloud grew on the viewers' screens, "and in that fateful second on August 6, 1945, a new concept of life and death was given its baptism.†   (source)
  • Seeing fire breaking out in a nearby ruin (except at the very center where the bomb itself ignited some fires, most of Hiroshima's city-wide conflagration was caused by inflammable wreckage falling on cook-stoves and live wires.)†   (source)
  • The hospitals and aid stations around Hiroshima were so crowded in the first weeks after the bombing, and their staffs were so variable, depending on their health and on the unpredictable arrival of outside help, that patients had to be constantly shifted from place to place.†   (source)
  • A Planning Conference with an enthusiastic young Military Government officer, Lieutenant John D. Montgomery, of Kalama— zoo, as its adviser, began to consider what sort of city the new Hiroshima should be.†   (source)
  • At nearly midnight, the night before the bomb was dropped, an announcer on the city's radio station said that about two hundred B-29s were approaching southern Honshu and advised the population of Hiroshima Ito evacuate to their designated 'safe areas'.†   (source)
  • Since radiation of at least a thousand times the natural 'leak' would be required to cause serious effects on the human body, the scientists announced that people could enter Hiroshima without any peril at all.†   (source)
  • It was the late sixties before analyses indeed showed some chromosome aberrations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, and it would, of course, take much longer to tell what, if any, effects there would be on their progeny.†   (source)
  • The younger daughter, Hisako, became devoted to him, and when, after eighteen months, his various symptoms grew so bad that he was going to have to be hospitalized she asked him to baptize her, and he did, on the day before he entered the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital for an entire year's stay.†   (source)
  • ' On the train on the way into Hiroshima from the country, where he lived with his mother, Dr Terufumi Sasaki, the Red Cross Hospital surgeon, thought over an unpleasant nightmare he had had the night before.†   (source)
  • Father Cieslik went to Misasa station, outside Hiroshima, rode for twenty minutes on an electric train, and then walked for an hour and a half in a terribly hot sun to Mr Okuma's house, which was beside the Ota River at the foot of a mountain.†   (source)
  • She would get up in the dark and trundle a borrowed two-wheeled push-cart for two hours across the city to a section called Eba, at the mouth of one of the seven estuarial rivers that branch from the Ota River through Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • The frequency of the warnings and the continued abstinence of Mr B with respect to Hiroshima had made its citizens jittery; a rumour was going around that the Americans were saving something special for the city.†   (source)
  • After an alarm, Father Kleinsorge always went out and scanned the sky, and this time, when he stepped outside, he was glad to see only the single weather plane that flew over Hiroshima each day about this time.†   (source)
  • Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or Mr B, as the Japanese with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and.†   (source)
  • Now he had only two patients left a woman from Yano, injured in the shoulder, and a young man of twenty-five recovering from burns he had suffered when the steel factory near Hiroshima in which he worked had been hit.†   (source)
  • Hiroshima had been getting such warnings almost every night for weeks, for at that time the B-29s were using Lake Biwa, northeast of Hiroshima, as a rendezvous point, and no matter what city the Americans planned to hit, the Super-fortresses streamed in over the coast near Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Early that day, 7 August, the Japanese radio broadcast for the first time a succinct announcement that very few, if any, of the people most concerned with its content, the survivors in Hiroshima, happened to hear: 'Hiroshima suffered considerable damage as the result of an attack by a few B-29s.†   (source)
  • Tanimoto persevered, calling together a number of leading citizens, and, after Norman Cousins had set up a Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation in New York to receive American funds, these people established the center in Hiroshima, with Tanimoto's church as its base.†   (source)
  • Cousins had bypassed the peace center in Hiroshima and dealt with the city government; Tanimoto had begged to have the moral-adoption project put under the center's wing, but his role had turned out to be that of a shopper for briefcases.†   (source)
  • Dr Fujii had been relatively idle for about a month because in July, as the number of untouched cities in Japan dwindled and as Hiroshima seemed more and more inevitably a target, he began turning patients away, on the ground that in case of a fire raid he would not be able to evacuate them.†   (source)
  • LONG before this, doctors in Hiroshima had begun to find that there were much more serious consequences of exposure to the bomb than the traumatic wounds and keloid scars that had been so dramatically visible in the early days.†   (source)
  • 'Dr Y. Hiraiwa, professor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, and one of my church members, was buried by the bomb under the two— storied house with his son, a student of Tokyo University.†   (source)
  • This alarm stemmed from one of the theories being passed through the park as to why so much of Hiroshima had burned: it was that a single plane had sprayed gasoline on the city and then somehow set fire to it in one flashing moment.†   (source)
  • It was in Nobori-cho, near the site of her former house, and though its floor was dirt and it was dark inside, it was at least a home in Hiroshima, and she was no longer dependent on the charity of her in— laws.†   (source)
  • In Japan, face is important even to institutions and long before the Red Cross Hospital was back to par in basic medical equipment, its directors put up a new yellow brick veneer facade, so the hospital became the handsomest building in Hiroshima — from the street.†   (source)
  • On August 6th, the fourth anniversary of the bombing, the national Diet promulgated a law establishing Hiroshima as a Peace Memorial City, and the final design for the commemorative park by the great Japanese architect Kenzo Tange was revealed to the public.†   (source)
  • A few minutes after they started, the air-raid siren went off a minute-long blast that warned of approaching planes but indicated to the people of Hiroshima only a slight degree of danger, since it sounded every morning at this time, when an American weather plane came over.†   (source)
  • THE Tokyo and Osaka operations on the girls were not altogether successful, and, on a visit to Hiroshima, Kiyoshi Tanimoto's friend Marvin Green wondered whether it might be possible for some of them to be taken to America, where the techniques of plastic surgery were more advanced.†   (source)
  • In May each year, around the time of the Emperor's birthday, when the trees along broad Peace Boulevard were at their feathery best and banked azaleas were everywhere in bloom, Hiroshima celebrated a flower festival.†   (source)
  • IN referring to those who went through the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Japanese tended to shy away from the term "survivors," because in its focus on being alive it might suggest some slight to the sacred dead.†   (source)
  • Besides his duties as a junior surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital, he now had to spend every Thursday across the city at the University of Hiroshima, to chip away at his doctoral dissertation on appendicial tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • Long before the American public had been told, most of the scientists and lots of nonscientists in Japan knew — from the calculations of Japanese nuclear physicists that a uranium bomb had exploded at Hiroshima and a more powerful one, of plutonium, at Nagasaki.†   (source)
  • The crowning blow came when the ashes of the Maiden named Tomoko Nakabayashi, who had died under anaesthesia at Mount Sinai, were returned to her parents in Hiroshima and he was not even invited to the funeral, which was conducted by his old friend Father Kleinsorge.†   (source)
  • She had once had several expensive kimonos, but during the war one had been stolen, she had given one to a sister who had been bombed out in Tokuyama, she had lost a couple in the Hiroshima bombing, and now she sold her last one.†   (source)
  • On June 7, 1973, Kiyoshi Tanimoto wrote the "Evening Essay" column in the Hiroshima Chugoku Shimbun: These last few years when August 6th approaches, voices are heard lamenting that this year, once again, the commemorative events will be held by a divided peace movement.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nakamura had lost the certificates for the bonds and other wartime savings, but fortunately she had copied off all the numbers just a few days before the bombing and had taken the list to Kabe, and so, when her hair had grown in enough for her to be presentable, she went to her bank in Hiroshima, and a clerk there told her that after checking her numbers against the records the bank would give her her money.†   (source)
  • He was becoming convinced that the collective memory of the hibakusha would be a potent force for peace in the world, and that there ought to be in Hiroshima a center where the experience of the bombing could become the focus of international studies of means to assure that atomic weapons would never be used again.†   (source)
  • On March 5, 1949, the memorandum appeared in the magazine, under the title "Hiroshima's Idea" — an idea that, Cousins' introductory note said, "the editors enthusiastically endorse and with which they will associate themselves": The people of Hiroshima, aroused from the daze that followed the atomic bombing of their city on August 6, 1945, know themselves to have been part of a laboratory experiment which proved the long-time thesis of peacemakers.†   (source)
  • He could face Hiroshima now, because a gaudy phoenix had risen from the ruinous desert of 1945: a remarkably beautiful city of more than a million inhabitants — only one in ten of whom was a hibakusha — with tall modern buildings on broad, tree— lined avenues crowded with Japanese cars, all of which had English lettering on them and appeared to be brand-new; a city of strivers and sybarites, with seven hundred and fifty-three bookstores and two thousand three hundred and fifty-six bars.†   (source)
  • NORMAN COUSINS had gone to work in New York on the Maidens idea, and in late 1954 Dr. Arthur Barsky, the chief of plastic surgery at both Mount Sinai and Beth Israel hospitals, and Dr. William Hitzig, an internist on the Mount Sinai staff and Cousins' personal physician, arrived in Hiroshima to cull from among the Maidens those whose prospects for transformation by surgery were best.†   (source)
  • The lot of Drs Fujii, Kanda, and Machii right after the explosion — and, as these three were typical, that of the majority of the physicians and surgeons of Hiroshima — with their offices and hospitals destroyed, their equipment scattered, their own bodies incapacitated in varying degrees, explained why so many citizens Who were hurt went untended and why so many Who might have lived died.†   (source)
  • The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.†   (source)
  • The Hiroshima players were at first called, in English, the Carps, until he pointed out to the public that the plural for that fish, and for those ballplayers, had no "s." He went often to watch games at the huge new stadium, not far from the A-Bomb Dome — the ruins of the Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Hall, which the city had kept as its only direct physical reminder of the bomb.†   (source)
  • Almost every year since 1946, on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a Peace Memorial Meeting had been held in a park that the city planners had set aside, during the city's rebuilding, as a center of remembrance, and on August 6, 1955, delegates from all over the world gathered there for the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.†   (source)
  • She hurried to Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and the Reverend Mr Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man's house in Koi, the city's western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.†   (source)
  • Some of them measured the force that had been necessary to shift marble gravestones in the cemeteries, to knock over twenty-two of the forty-seven railroad cars in the yards at Hiroshima station, to lift and move the concrete roadway on one of the bridges, and to perform other noteworthy acts of strength, and concluded that the pressure exerted by the explosion varied from 5.3 to 8.0 tons per square yard.†   (source)
  • Japanese physicists, who knew a great deal about atomic fission (one of them owned a cyclotron) worried about lingering radiation at Hiroshima, and in mid-August, not many days after President Truman's disclosure of the type of bomb that had been dropped, they entered the city to make investigations.†   (source)
  • Two years earlier, a Quaker professor of dendrology from the University of Washington named Floyd W. Schmoe, driven, apparently, by deep urges for expiation and reconciliation, had come to Hiroshima, assembled a team of carpenters, and, with his own hands and theirs, begun building a series of Japanese-style houses for victims of the bomb; in all, his team eventually built twenty-one.†   (source)
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