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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on an arm of the Inland Sea southeast of Hiroshima. It is a naval base and major port.
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'Kure' is a family dining table concept created by relatively unknown Turkish designer Fatih Can Sarioz.
Turkish Digest 2008
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Four women were given to them, whom they carried back to Japan, there to become the ancestresses of an uji known as Kure no kinu-nui and Kaya no kinu-nui (clothiers of
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Have not seen this anime, but I might check it out once I finish most of my long watch list on January 21, 2010 at 11: 02 pm | Reply Rainbowsphere: Holiday Break Kris Kringle: Kure-Nai – “I. AM.NOT.A.LOLICON.”
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Kure bloomed as a violent garden where Navy Crosses grew.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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One of his junior pilots was killed shortly after the Kure strikes but Kraft, who had scored a hit on a ship there, credited the feat to the youngster.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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But rather than take counsel of the Task Force 38 staff, The Bull was eager to comply with orders that gratified his vanity at the expense of eighty-three young men who died at Kure attacking impotent, immobile ships.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Whether the cost of the Kure strikes was worth the result remains one of the least examined questions of the Pacific War.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Therefore, on the 19th, air strikes targeted warships at Kure, Kobe, and the Inland Sea.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Three B-29s in formation over Kure Arsenal, a major target complex on the Inland Sea.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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The next day Task Force 38 again spread its wings over the Inland Sea, Kure, and elsewhere, sinking three tankers and a merchant ship and damaging a cruiser plus five other vessels.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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