Word: generalissimoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China last week provided a large share of Washington's worries, but it was the other China that attracted firsthand attention in the nation's capital. Mme, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, continued the "unofficial" visit she began last month, charming her hosts at a luncheon with 60 Senators and at a dinner given by Dean Rusk-and all the while discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang...
Women & Lies. His first chance to show how came in his native Dominican Republic with Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's 17-year-old daughter Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold). Rubi was only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa...
...petition. After the bill had been emasculated by the Senate he urged liberals to accept what they could get. (Compare Senator Joseph Clark's description of the 1960 fight in Congress: The Sapless Branch: "In the end, the leadership on both sides of the aisle capitulated to the Southern Generalissimo, Richard B. Russell of Georgia...
Your aggressive determination to wipe out the popular democratic government of the sovereign nation of Taiwan before it has a chance to exercise its legitimate right of annexing the mainland, compounded by your deceitful and transparent agreement with that Great Human tarian, the Generalissimo, that the mainland and the island are indeed one country, has proved you unworthy of sitting in that Great Hall of Truth, the Security Council of the UN, where the Great "Toughminded" Liberal Mr. Stevenson has to put up with the constant lies and distortions of your partner in crime, the Soviet Union, who has always...
...fought against the warlords, the Japanese and the Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...