pricking of one's thumbs
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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pricking of one's thumbs an intuitive feeling, a foreboding, often with allusion to the words of the Second Witch in Shakespeare's
Macbeth (1606) as Macbeth approaches, ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.’
It was customary to fold the thumb into the palm of the hand as a precaution against the supernatural; Ovid's
Fasti refers to a person pointing ‘with his closed fingers, and his thumb Put in the midst, lest ghosts should near him come.’
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Yamashita gold again? (Editor's note: Battle-scarred generals, like Tomoyuki Yamashita, were not expected to lug a treasure hoard around cited in this article.).(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/16/2005; 700+ words
; ...memorial shrine here in honor of the fabled general, Tomoyuki Yamashita. In recent years treasure hunters had excavated...Session Road. The improbable gold shipment to PI Tomoyuki Yamashita (18881946) was commander of Kwantung (Guangdong...
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That 'Yamashita gold'.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...treasure hunters in search of the Yamashita gold hoard dont realize that...fabulous gold hoard of Gen. Yamashita. Tireless investors In a previous...Malaya Lets see if indeed Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita carried ten tons of gold to be...
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Yamashita's gold hoard.(Romeo V. Pefianco)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 8/12/2006; 700+ words
; ...treasure chests buried by General Tomoyuki Yamashita indicate despair of diggers and...Editor's note: The search for Yamashita's gold started in 1945 and...the author.) Tiger of Malaya Yamashita was hanged on Feb. 23, 1946...
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War note: Yamashita's fall remembered
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 9/1/1995; ; 679 words
; ...Reporter 09-01-1995 War note: Yamashita's fall remembered. KIANGAN, Ifugao--Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, Commander of the 14th Area Army of...of the Kiangan Central School where Yamashita surrendered to elements of the U...
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YAMASHITA'S TREASURE FOUND? Multi-million dollar lump of platinum may
Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The; 2/19/1995; ; 689 words
; ...surrounding a war booty called the Yamashita treasure. President Fidel Ramos...believed the metal was part of the Yamashita trove of precious stones, gold...Legend had it that General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who commanded the Japanese...
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The Yamashita treasure.(Merry-Go-Round)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 11/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...and deals with the so-called Yamashita Treasure and how it fell into...in the Philippines. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaysia, had...nevertheless named after him, thus the Yamashita Treasure. *** When the war...
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GMA leads Yamashita rites in Ifugao.(Metro & National News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/1/2005; 443 words
; ...of Malaya," Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, tomorrow, Friday, Sept...Sept. 2, 60 years ago when Yamashita surrendered to Filipino-American...Veterans of this town said Yamashita and his troops had a long walk...
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Endless water supply; (Editora[euro][TM]s note: Singaporea[euro][TM]s new technology to conserve water is paying off. Yamashita was deprived of any opportunity to amass for himself any form of enemy treasure as noted by the author.).(Romeo V. Pefianco)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...drinking." People here donat shout, TUBIG. Yamashita had no treasure hoard Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita appeared like a bulldog of a man as he demanded...Then known as the "Tiger of Malaya," Yamashita quickly became a living legend after his...
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In civil action by finder against Ferdinand Marcos for converting gold plundered and buried by General Yamashita in Philippines during World War II, Hawai'ian Supreme Court rejects "act of state" defense since defendant failed to prove that Marcos had seized the treasure for other than private purposes.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: International Law Update; 1/1/1999; 554 words
; ...the Philippines in 1961, Roger Domingo Roxas ran into two individuals who claimed to know where Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita had buried large amounts of gold and other valuables looted from conquered nations during World War II.
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Profile: War crimes tribunal against a Japanese general after World War II
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 12/27/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...s most important general, Tomoyuki Yamashita, put on trial before a military...tribunal for crimes that Ives knew Yamashita had not committed. The young...said, `Look, I don't think Yamashita is guilty of any of the things...
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tomoyuki Yamashita The Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885-1946) distinguished himself as the "Tiger...was tried for war crimes and executed by the Allies. Tomoyuki Yamashita was born on Nov. 8, 1885, in Shikoku, son of a medical...
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Yamashita Tomoyuki, General
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Yamashita Tomoyuki, General (1885–1946...campaigns ). The son of a village doctor, Yamashita was born on Shikoku, the smallest of...rival military factions—and Yamashita soon found himself heading a military...
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Yamashita Tomoyuki
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Yamashita Tomoyuki (b. 8 Nov. 1885, d. 23 Feb. 1946). Japanese general Born near...commander of the 25th Army, which invaded Malaya in December 1941, Yamashita captured Singapore in February 1942 and led his army into Burma. In...
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Yamashita, Tomoyuki
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Yamashita, Tomoyuki (1885–1946) Japanese general known for his successful attacks on Malaya and Singapore during World War II . He became...
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Philippines, Liberation of the
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...defense of Leyte convinced Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of the 14th Area...subordinate's concern that Yamashita might counterattack along the...American troops encircled the city. Yamashita had not intended to defend Manila...
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