Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last September, when Government General Fu Tso-yi marched on Kalgan, Wang and his company of 40 men stood at Tsining, a mud-walled Suiyuan railway and mining town where one of the civil war's bloodiest encounters took place. After 23 of his company had died and he was forced to retreat, depression gripped Wang. He asked himself and his men: "Why do we Chinese fight against Chinese? Of what avail was this sacrifice at Tsining...
Summoned for shriving by a commissar (unlike Wang, a Marxist veteran of jthe Communists' 1934-35 "Long March" to the northwest), Wang confessed his error, but said: "Within me, my heart tells me I can't fight this civil war." The commissar pondered. "Comrade," he finally said, "if your heart tells you this, you must give it a rest. You must think deeply. When your heart changes, you may come back to your post...
...whole absurd panoply of totalitarianism is on display. . . . The multitudes of gaudy uniforms . . . soldiers with red tassels dangling from their overseas caps; the snappy, booted, armed police, with their short clubs strapped to their belts; the civil guard, in their odd tricorn hats; the municipal police in blue, the special border police in green . . . poker-faced plain-clothes men flashing their badges and demanding identification papers...
...built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved in controversy over civil air rights. This has given some Newfoundlanders the idea that they might do better bargaining, not with Ottawa, but with...
...table lamps into paroxysms of rage or frustration. He built monuments of painted bones, drew "pictures" that were nothing but dancing lines and dots, made a "Bull's Head" out of a bicycle seat and handle bars. He protested the German bombing of Guernica (in the Spanish Civil War) with a massive mural whose ugliness is its strength. "What do you think an artist is?" asked Picasso. "An imbecile who has only his eyes? . . . No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy...