Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited...
...full title of the shogun, head of a military oligarchy that had established itself in the 12th century, was "barbarian-subduing generalissimo," and now he had proved helpless. Angry nationalists rallied around the idea of overthrowing the disgraced shogunate and restoring direct rule by the Emperor, descendant of the sun goddess. Their slogan: Sonno-joi (Revere the Emperor! Drive out the barbarians...
...Popular, finished a strong second with 106 seats. The Communists won only five seats, down from 20 in the outgoing parliament. In effect, the vote meant the total collapse of the political center, which has governed the country since the return of democracy in 1976 following the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus, 43 years after their defeat in Spain's bloody Civil War, the Socialists were coming to power as a legitimate, popularly elected governing party for the first time in Spanish history...
...position to become Spain's first leftist Prime Minister since the end of the civil war in 1939. González's remarkable ascendancy reflects, at least in part, the fact that Spanish democracy has matured in the seven years since the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. King Juan Carlos, while not endorsing any party in the campaign, is understood to believe that the country's fragile institutions can be strengthened and even improved by successful alternations of power...
...ailing little Seat (a Spanish Fiat) dubbed Rocinante, the newly elevated monsignor and his Communist companion Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest...