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Word: bullyish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Badlands have been patrolled by slovenly, bullyish Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Cultivated Lands | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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