#122 banzai

banzai- a patriotic cheer, battle cry, or salutation

- Japanese- may you live for...ten thousand years

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."

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.

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