Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilant Chen Yi exchanged congratulatory telegrams with his Communist brother-in-arms, one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng. The two Red leaders agreed to join forces and carve out a "liberated" Central China state like the "North China Liberated Area" set up six weeks...
Zinc & Freedom. When Deakin's men tried to rally the strikers, addressing them with the traditional dockers' salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
...planes and guns, and the best army in Central America, Tacho was worried. Last week he decided that it was time to try a little appeasement. To four Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras) his Foreign Minister Luis Debayle, who is also his brother-in-law, sent invitations to a regional conference on "outdated treaty agreements...
...Your brother-in-law," replied Rossi, "is President of Costa Rica...
Temporarily ensconced at Chipping Lodge is Mrs. Brocken's brother-in-law Simon, the sort of crabbed but basically kindhearted curmudgeon who has been a reliable fixture of English novels for several centuries. Simon is decidedly hostile to modern life: "I look back to 1912 as the highest point of civilization, from which we have been steadily retrogressing ever since." Together with some mildly romantic young folk, Mrs. Brocken and her brother-in-law manage to live in pleasant decorum, with each member of the household sensible enough to mind his own business and respect the others' peculiarities...