Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief that our bombing can somehow break the will to resist of a nation with a thousand-year history of independence, which has grown up in the shadow of the Chinese revolution and is now backed by both China and Russia. We should avoid matching wills directly with Mao Tse-tung, who is if nothing else one of history's top achievers in militant will-power...
...organized rebellions in Greece and Malaya, the invasion of South Korea, the repression of the Hungarian uprising, the Berlin Wall. While they are theoretically opposed to any dictatorship they endlessly make allowances for Communist regimes; they feel outraged by U.S. leaders while either apologizing for or extolling Castro and Mao, and of course they want instant, unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, heedless of the consequences. "We refuse to be anti-Communist," declared Lynd and Hayden in a statement written for Studies on the Left, since the term is used "to justify a foreign policy that is no more sophisticated...
...Guards may get their inspiration from Chairman Mao, but pro golfers swear by Norman Vincent Peale. South Africa's Gary Player carries a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking around in his golf bag - and over the years has won the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the P.G.A. The newest advocate of Peale Power is Texan Gay Brewer Jr., 35, whose major claim to fame is that he has found more ways to lose tournaments than any other player in the game...
From ancient times the sedentary Chinese farmers and bureaucrats have always had to deal from weakness with powerful, mobile, non-Chinese fighters and conquerors. Today, Chiang deals with us from weakness, while Mao deals with the Russians, also from weakness. Both are doing well...
...some foreigners against others, to secure Chinese ends. Thus Chiang Kai-shek has cultivated American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...