Word: grafter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chiang Kai-shek is a man of principle, not an opportunist, not a warlord, not (his enemies finally admitted) a grafter. His principles, however, are not always clear or consistent. The conflict between the old and new, unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant...
...Minister Ku replaced General Sheng Shih-tsai, the sad-eyed epicure (he likes sea slugs, champagne, Russian chocolates) who last year lost the Government of Sinkiang for openly opposing Russian influence. At the recent meeting of the People's Political Council, General Sheng was violently denounced as a grafter and as one who took "lives lightly as grass...
Somebody at the Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
...presence of his father, but Mihai I is just a simple royal youth who likes to tinker with motorboats, cars and radio sets. Lulu Malaxa, daughter of Rumania's richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty...