Banzai

At Grand Rounds one morning, he showed us slide after slide of his success stories, post-op patients in what he called the banzai position: arms raised high, standing on one leg. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)

Now from Guadalcanal and out to the jungle islands and so on, the Japanese military doctrine was destruction of the enemy at the water's edge, and the tactic they used was what we call the banzai charge. ❋ Unknown (1995)

So he will go for the maximum demands bare-headed — what a commenter prevously called a banzai charge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"There is a sport called banzai skydiving," he says.

Originally, Kring wanted to use the word 'banzai', but Masi lobbied against it for its war-like connotations, and 'yatta' was selected. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On this latter occasion the ministers are said to have "uttered reiterated cries of 'banzai'" *, which has come into vogue once more in modern times as the equivalent of "hurrah." ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)

When the Japs pulled one of their so-called banzai charges, we’d just sit there and mow ’em down. ❋ Bill Sloan (2005)

In one scene which has Korean board goers particularly riled, Hetalia's Korea says to Japan (both are male): "Let me touch your breasts", after which Korea grabs the chest of Japan, screaming "banzai". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Monday morning news broadcasts ran nonstop coverage of the election blowout, with winning politicians leading their supporters in cheers of "banzai" and solemn shots of grim-faced lawmakers that had been ousted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Sadakazu Tanigaki (top 6th L) raises his hands with his parliamentarians as he shouts "banzai" (cheers) after he was elected head of the LDP at the party headquarters in politics, for the recent change of government was aimed at transforming Japan's ❋ Unknown (2009)

The final-lap "banzai" move that second-place Carl Edwards attempted on first-place Jimmie Johnson at Kansas Speedway was as thrilling as it was daring. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Japanese suicide "banzai" rushers are unable to bayonet players if they lie prone, and will instead swing aimlessly above the players 'heads.

Within a year, Leckie is facing his first banzai charge on Guadalcanal, a discomposing event with an aftermath every bit as ghastly, as The Pacific shows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such soldiers had proved more than capable of using their own black propaganda when they led a banzai charge on Guadalcanal yelling “Down with Babe Ruth!” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

Father Miscamble rightly lays the blame on the twisted neo-samurai who led the Japanese military geared up with true banzai spirit to engage the whole population in a kind of kamikaze campaign. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)