headquarters; head office; main office
successor; replacement; second wife
early post war period; immediately after the war
to shelter (e.g. a fugitive); to harbour; to harbor; to hide; to give refuge to
suspicious-looking; fishy
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
self-proclaimed; self-professed; professing oneself to be; calling oneself; first person
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
various countries; various regions; various provinces
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
Japan and Germany; Japanese-German
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
water vein; underground stream of water; waterway
waterway; channel; wake (of a ship)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
starvation; famine; hunger
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
to get between; to be caught in
sight; attraction; spectacle; something worth seeing
to feel anxious; to feel nervous; fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears); hanging untidily (of hair); straggling
to apologize; to apologise
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing
Rio; Rio de Janeiro (abbr)
sun; saint; San (people); son
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
relating to the USA; toward America; with America