Word: feudality
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...luxe Dodge busses, mounted little horses and rode to a promontory above the mighty Yellow River, sunk in its age-old canyon. They crossed the swift waters on the rope planks of a swaying, weathered suspension bridge, climbed the winding trail beyond to Kenanpo in Shansi, perched like a feudal castle on a cave-pocked cliff...
...Free Man. By 1943's fall, Professor Sakimura came to certain heretical conclusions: Germany's economic position was not nearly so strong as the Nazis pretended or Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima believed. The United Nations were winning the war. Inevitably, his own country's anachronistic feudal system would give way. Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause...
Treue richly satisfies the Jappetite for bloodshed. It contains 49 successful murders and suicides, a few unsuccessful ones. The story tells how 47 faithful Ronin (knights), led by one of the Rōnin, Yuranosuke, avenge the assassination of feudal War Lord Yenya. Having dispatched the assassin, Prince Moronao, all 47 commit hara-kiri at Yenya 's grave - as a sign that their oath of feudal loyalty holds good even to death...
...highly susceptible to disease. Actually, the British buy no corn at all from Egypt, buy no wheat without permission from the Government. Real reason the fellahin are starving: they get only about 2O? a day to feed themselves and their families, from landlords who run the region on the feudal system. Now even the landlords are worried, for malaria has so weakened the workers that ten are now needed to do the work of one and the production of sugar may soon go down...
...important facts qualify this picture of official Poland: 1) the Government still has to reckon with some feudal-minded, unbending figures who are totally unfitted to deal with Poland's plight; 2) the influence of some ultraconservative, violently anti-Russian leaders of the Polish Army is still strong, although they are not actually in the exiled government...