Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requested my removal from duty as Chief of Naval Operations, giving among the reasons therefor that I was, in your opinion, not loyal to my superiors and did not have the 'respect for authority' that should exist 'between various official ranks...
This week Washington, London and Ottawa announced that the vast standardization project had been formally approved. "Tripartite arrangements," said the announcement, "will insure that in time of necessity there will be no material or technical obstacles to full co-operation among the armed forces concerned." Successful standardization, in the framework of the North Atlantic pact, might prove one of the most momentous steps in Western military history...
...native population does not rise against them. While General Sun is licking Formosa's military defenses into shape, Governor Wu is busy trying to win the loyalty of Formosa's 6,500,000 people, most of whom dislike the Chinese, Nationalist or Communist. To win friends among Formosa's hard-working peasants, Wu is pressing for further land reform. Wu's predecessor, General Chen Cheng, started a good reform program; tenant farmers who used to pay as much as 70% of their crops in rent now pay a maximum of 37-5%-Even the landlords...
...learned last September, when a young Indo-Chinese named Do Dai Phuoc got into a fight with a French soldier in a Paris bus. After the fight Do Dai Phuoc, a doctor of law and president of the Vietnamese Students' Association in France, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Among various innocuous pamphlets in his briefcase, police found a copy of General Revers' top-secret report...
...brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He decreed that employers must split 10% of their profits among their workers...