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...Kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man), the rehabilitated Chen quelled a revolt in which hundreds died; during World War II he led Mao's Fourth Army across the Yangtze, later won several major victories in the Civil War, and in 1949 emerged-thanks to Mao -as the "conqueror" of East China. His tough, agile infantrymen chewed up dozens of Nationalist divisions. But for all his military success, Chen was afflicted with what the Chinese Communists call "liberalism"-a certain in ability to adapt to Mao's hard-boiled personal asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar...
Words & Scholarships. Questions started rising like pop flies, asking who held the hatchet. But clearly the Yankees had sacked their own man. Allen's contract runs out this year, and the Yankees have been holding secret talks with other announcers for weeks...
...actions have been as admirable. The wire tapping bill he supported (and to his credit later repudiated) conflicted sharply with his strong support of civil liberties. Often he performed his role of Administration hatchet man with an excess of energy--particularly in his treatment of the executives responsible for the steel price rise and in his relentless, seemingly ruthless, drive to convict James Hoffa. But the assassination coupled with a period of introspection have left him more subdued...
...setting upon one another with bricks, bamboo rods, lead pipes, meat cleavers, nail-studded clubs, chains, truncheons, Molotov cocktails. The companions of one dead Buddhist dipped their hands in his blood, smeared it on their faces as war paint. A Catholic youth lay in a first-aid room, a hatchet protruding from his head...
Verbose Irrelevance. Such overblown nonsense was greeted by jeers from the opposition bench in Parliament. But even Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself could not have been entirely pleased. He had, after all, expected something else: a hatchet job on his press critics at home. Verwoerd had not asked for a broadside against the foreign press, nor had he requested concrete proposals of any sort...