Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From V.M.I. The morale of the new Nationalist army seems to be good, and officers credit the improvement to the work of trim, greying General Sun Li-jen, 49, who learned the elementary facts about soldiering at the U.S.'s Virginia Military Institute. Sun served ably against the Japanese at Shanghai and later in Burma, where he commanded the snappy, U.S.-trained 38th Division. As one of the Nationalists' top commanders in Manchuria after V-J day, he beat the Communists consistently. In 1947, Chinese clique politics led to his transfer to Formosa and the Fengshan training camp...
...Chaplin picture who wasn't cheered up ... We knew that no girl would ever want him, and that emphasized the fact that some girl would or did want us . . ." Capp has improved on the old master: "I try to make a disappointed lover feel better by having Li'l Abner never know what to do about a succession of eager, luscious girls who throw their juicy selves at him ... Compared with Li'l Abner [the disappointed lover is] Don Juan. It makes him feel fine to be Don Juan. So he feels fine about Li...
...would require no U.S. expeditionary force to hold Formosa, the Joint Chiefs were assured. The Chinese themselves have enough arms & men to hold the fort: 250 planes and twelve well-equipped divisions (although lacking in some such items as tank ammunition) under V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li...