Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summaries: Hartman (LI) defeated Stanton, 3 to 2; Harding (H) defeated Everts, 3 to 2; Lawrence (H) defeated Brofy, 3 to 1; Emerson (H) defeated Johnson, 3 to 2; Richardson (H) defeated McKeown...
When it came to preaching to his army, his officials, and to a whole generation of students, Chiang seldom quoted the Bible. He stressed four old traditional ideas: Li ("regulated attitude"), I ("right conduct"), Lien ("honesty") and Chih ("integrity and honor"). Out of these came Chiang's "New Life Movement," which symbolized the new China; it included strictures against everything from bribery to wiping the nose on the sleeve...
...clue for the answer. Lunch was Western style when foreign guests were present, Chinese style for his countrymen. He was usually abed by 10 p.m. and he was sleeping soundly, he said. The only insomnia he could remember recently was last March, when the surprise election of General Li Tsung-jen to the vice presidency had made him somewhat sleepless. He had cured that by violating one of his Methodist principles: he had downed a little bit of whiskey...
Like a Scabrous Disease. Inside the headquarters hut, as Li splashed water on his face from a basin, the adjutant said the general had had a good night. He had been able to sleep from midnight until 3 in the morning. Over breakfast the general explained disconsolately that he had not been able to take his objective. Although a thousand shells had been poured into the village, the Communists had held their line and mustered enough strength to send a counterattack within a mile of the general's headquarters. "We will take it today," he said with determination...
...after we landed at Nanking came the melancholy news that Huang Po-tao's moated walls had been pierced. The Communists claimed that his army was segmented and being chewed up piecemeal. If true, this left the Nationalists in a serious position. Both Li and Chiu had seriously overextended their lines in the effort to save Huang, and left themselves wide open to pincer attack. The next move was up to the Communists...