Word: eunuch
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...scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...Angeles municipal judge he acted, off the bench, with unjudicial sprightliness, marched in parades to protest prohibition. Finally, fearing to become a "political eunuch," he resigned his $10,000-a-year seat on the bench, got elected to the State Senate...
When the old Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...
...well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...
Winston Churchill, speaking sternly to the London Poles, also spoke sternly to Franklin Roosevelt. It is high time, said the Prime Minister (in parliamentary language), that the U.S. Government quit its role as a eunuch in world affairs (see FOREIGN NEWS...