Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsider, not one of the Nanking inner circle like Sun Fo. Though he was famed as the Chinese commander who had smashed two Japanese divisions at the battle of Taierhchuang in 1938, he had had no active field command since V-J day. Obviously, he was not the Gimo's choice. There were roots of distrust reaching back to 1929 when Li led a brief defection of Kwangsi generals. But his strong words made him a rallying point for all the non-Communist dissatisfaction in China-intellectuals, army officers, northerners whose lands had been overrun by the Reds...
Clay was in command from the start, holding the losers to single runs in the sixth and seventh innings while the home team struck for two in the first, five in the fourth, and three more for good measure in the eighth...
Blest be its members whom its laws command...
...political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command of a self-inspired leader. In Europe they call it Fascism. Here we call it the New Deal...
General Feng Vu Sheng, formerly second in command to Chiang Kai-Shek, and Alexander Hsu of the Chinese National Student Federation will discuss "Chinese Democracy and Chiang Kai-Shek" tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The Committee for Wallace is sponsor...