Word: feudally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolchildren taking the compulsory education course in primary and junior high schools know no Japanese history and are taught no morals. My primary aim is to implant patriotic sentiments in schoolchildren's hearts." The J.T.U. promptly protested that "Matsunaga wants to march the children back to the dark, feudal past." Even the anti-Communist Japan Federation of Teachers' Unions (20,000 members) warned against "reactionary trends and militarism." But reactionary or not, Matsunaga had powerful arguments for his campaign: Communism-and a 350% rise in juvenile delinquency since...
...anti-Dio elements of the U.A.W.-A.F.L. International's executive board tried to get rid of Dio, Tony Doria fought the action, finally arranged for the union to buy Dio's resignation. The price, cash on the barrelhead: $16,000. Dio took the money-and like a feudal prince, took his locals too. He moved over to the Teamsters and began trying to grab the New York Teamster leadership for ambitious Jimmy Hoffa...
...their use for outside mischiefmaking: as the leading head-chopper among Arab potentates, the Imam has little domestic opposition. The Imam of Yemen is hardly abreast of the 4th century, but the Communists can nonetheless be expected to continue complaining that it is the U.S. that backs reactionary and feudal Arab rulers...
Until a few years before the Bolshevik Revolution, it appears, herds of aurochs roamed the fictional forest of Kratovits, a great feudal estate in Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...
...Azikiwe, Prime Minister of the Ibo East moved into town with all the fanfare of hopeful candidates at a U.S. national convention. Each installed a huge staff in a top Mayfair hotel and hired a pressagent to get the bandwagons going. Meanwhile, as spokesman for the proud and feudal Moslem emirs of the North, who want independence with no democratic folderol to go with it, the Sardauna let it be known that only a Northerner would be acceptable as Premier to the 17 million people of his region, who outnumber both other regions combined...