kamikaze

• “When Japan was in equally desperate straits in 1944, using the word kamikaze for the suicide pilots was not for nothing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Japan's Shattered Mirror

• “This is the origin of the term "kamikaze," divine wind.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Japan's Shattered Mirror

• “The reason I ask is that kamikaze is Japanese for “Divine Wind”, and it would just be too funny if he chose to call himself William “kamikaze” Dembski.”

  Now, That's a Video to Look Forward To - The Panda's Thumb

• “Don't forget where the term 'kamikaze' originated.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chain of Attack

• “Rashness, unbelievable and incomprehensible rashness, to use the word "kamikaze" to describe the "technology" of allied aviation.”

  The Huffington Post: Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Reply -- With Regret -- to Claude Lanzmann

• “The group announced "Operation Divine Wind", which translates to the Japanese word kamikaze, the name given to World War II pilots sent on suicide missions.”

  The Australian | News |

• “The Republicans are on a longterm kamikaze mission," Del.”

  The Washington Post: Senate panel kills House-approved bills targeting illegal immigration

• “It tells the stories of seven young men who were compelled to become kamikaze pilots – essentially airborne suicide bombers, flying into Allied warships (the Wikipedia entry on kamikaze is here) – by the Japanese military.”

  Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives

• “I had always understood (as the etymologies in dictionaries told me) that the word kamikaze means 'divine wind' in Japanese, originally referred to the storms that hit the Mongol fleet in 1281 and saved Japan from invasion, and was later used to refer to Japanese suicide pilots during World War Two (the only sense in English).”

  languagehat.com: KAMIKAZE.

• “He had choice words for banks and for Tea Partiers, whom he called "kamikaze zealots.”

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