Word: kowtow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to hornswoggle sturdy ranchers out of their land. Thus, while conforming to type, with a full quota of fist fights, shootings, holdups and spectacular conflagrations, Let Freedom Ring reaches its climax when Eddy delivers a rousing speech which convinces railroad workers that they do not have to kowtow to their boss, follows it with a rendering of My Country, 'Tis of Thee...
Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...
...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...
...decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just in case...
...ruminating Henry Wallace was little more sure of exactly where he stood than he is today. He muffed supporting the cause at all for many, many years. He began by teaming up with Peek, but ditched him-or got the President to ditch him -when George wouldn't kowtow to the Happy Hot Dogs who work behind the scenes. Mr. Wallace then surrendered all mental conclusions to Rex Tugwell, who knows as much about the farm problem as Haile Selassie knows about Oshkosh, Wisconsin...