crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching
stopping a sword stroke between one's bare hands
strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a stickler for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules
to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of
silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
pride; boast; credit (to)
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
to shame the name (of); to blot the reputation (of)
yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly
men and women of all ages
pledge; vow; (of a man and woman) having sexual relations; having sexual intercourse; destiny; fate
one's post; place of work; workplace
to smear with blood; to kill
one's condolences; feelings of sympathy
happiness in the next world
gushing forth; bursting out; (lit.) like breaking a dam
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant
independent state; independent nation
aggression; invasion; raid
tenacious; persevering; persistent; sticky
postwar period; period after Second World War
commander-in-chief; generalissimo
autonomy; right of self-government
forced labor; forced labour; slave labor; slave labour
life imprisonment; life sentence
death penalty; capital punishment
successive occurrence; frequent occurrence; succession (of); series
oppression; suppression; pressure
to make characteristic; to characterize