All 7 Uses
prosperity
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- It was there, from his vantage point as altar boy, murmuring the Mass prayers in Latin, that he started to notice certain men who seemed to radiate a success and prosperity that belied the general hard times.†
Chpt 2.prosperity = a state of doing well -- especially economically
- Franklin Borough had grown so confident of its unending prosperity that it built a new municipal building, so opulent in its gleaming white brick that it was nicknamed the Taj Mahal.†
Chpt 2.
- Using the deceptively neutral term "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," Japanese propaganda claimed that Japan's aim was to free its neighbors from white colonial rule.†
Chpt 3.
- The Japanese attitude of superiority is evident in a document from the Imperial Rule Assistance Association entitled "Basic Concepts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere": "Although we use the expression 'Asian Cooperation,' this by no means ignores the fact that Japan was created by the Gods or posits an automatic racial equality."†
Chpt 3.
- The nation "created by the Gods" initiated "co-prosperity" by raining terror down on Manchuria and China.†
Chpt 3. *
- The poster proclaimed the peaceful intentions of "co-prosperity."†
Chpt 3.
- Co-prosperity indeed.†
Chpt 3.
Definitions:
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(1)
(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)