Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sick Men. Behavior of their maddened troops is a source of great shame to responsible men in the Japanese Army and Government. Along his way, White learned some good reasons for that behavior. He was told that most of the Japanese soldiers in Shansi have been there over two years. They have had no furlough, no home leave, not even a Peking weekend...
Several months ago the Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
General Kawamoto went to Shanghai for consultations, returned, begged the Marshal importunately. Firm as the Great Wall, Wu Pei-fu again refused...
...Great Britain and France, which held that the planes and trucks rightfully belonged to them because Poland owes them for raw materials supplied before...
Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube, across to storied Thebes, to Troy, down through Asia Minor to defeat Darius and his Persians, on to Egypt, to India...