Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans in particular, and Americans in general, might say until they were blue in the face that U.S. isolationism is dead-the world had not yet come to believe...
Jubilant Chen Yi exchanged congratulatory telegrams with his Communist brother-in-arms, one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng. The two Red leaders agreed to join forces and carve out a "liberated" Central China state like the "North China Liberated Area" set up six weeks...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
...goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going on for 13 days. The reason: a wildcat strike of 19,000 dockers who still scorned the come-back-to-work talk of Transport and General Workers' Union General Secretary Arthur Deakin and his union straw bosses...
Under the watching eyes of Manila police, Taruc strode to the office of President Elpidio Quirino in Malacanan Palace, thrust out his hand to Constabulary General Mariano Castaneda, whose main job for two years has been to hunt Taruc. Castaneda ignored the hand, frisked the man. Taruc carried no weapons (though the seven-man bodyguard he brought along yielded, among other items, nine pistols, two submachine guns and two crowbars). Later, having pledged his loyalty and cooperation to the government and watched President Quirino sign the amnesty, Taruc seized the constabulary chief's hand and pumped it vigorously...