Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brash, impulsive go-getter who won international acclaim last month for his near-faultless performance as State Minister in charge of the Olympic Games, Kono loves to be called "oya-bun," the admiring title given to the most ruthless gangster lords in feudal Japan. Today, it symbolizes a political boss who inspires unswerving loyalty and obedience in his supporters...
George Cabot Lodge '50 told an audience of Harvard Dames last night that "what you see in these countries [Latin America] is the dissolution of the feudal system..." and that "aggressive forces on the left are rushing in to fill the vacuum...
Permanent Revolution. People's Daily warned last spring that China's enemies were pinning their hopes on the "deterioration of the younger generation," and that concern for "seniority" in promoting officials was "backward, clannish, feudal thinking." When the Communist Youth League met a few weeks later, its first secretary, Hu Yao-pang, 51, was reelected, but 144 of its 178 committee members were replaced...
Friends & Fallout. Once, Paz and Siles were allies, together led the 1952 revolution that toppled the feudal tin-mining aristocracy and installed the National Revolutionary Movement that has ruled Bolivia ever since. Paz was President from 1952 to 1956, then turned over power to Siles for four years before becoming President again in 1960. In the early days, it was more or less a government by committee, no matter who occupied the presidential palace. When Paz decided to run again in last May's election despite a tradition against consecutive terms, he and Siles fell...
...every fan of Japanese movies knows, the hordes of feudal samurai warriors who lost their masters and sought a new place in society were called ronin-literally, "wave people." The people that modern Japan calls ronin wear not swords but the black caps of students. They are high school graduates who fail to survive the staggering competition for entrance to top universities-100,000 this year-and go on to study on their own or attend high-priced cramming colleges to prepare for another feverish try. Ronin who have made three or four yearly attempts are not uncommon...