Word: overlording
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Japanese troops, having played out their last forlorn role, were about to retire to concentration camps. Their commander, General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between his own stranded army and Chinese headquarters. There were 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers below the Great Wall in China when the war ended-far more than U.S. estimates before V-J day. The last 400,000 troops, who at Chungking's direction have policed railroads and held approaches...
...list of 24 top Nazis who will be tried in a group as war criminals under the general charge of conspiracy to wage aggressive war. Specific charges, probably, will be brought against each criminal-the Rotterdam and Coventry bombings against Hermann Goring; wholesale murder against Hans Frank, former Nazi overlord of Poland...
...Among social animals like baboons there is complete dictatorship by an overlord who has first choice of food, mates, sleeping place. He demands subservience and gets it but, says Mrs. Noble: dominance, often as not, is based on bluff...
...officers and sailors saluting their guest at the rail saw one of the few living rulers who looks the part. Looming over them was a robed, resplendent Arab, 6 ft. 4 in. tall-the absolute monarch of some 3,000,000 subjects, the overlord of 3,500,000 more, the master of a few oases and of many deserts and mountains whose combined area (700,000 sq. mi.) is about one-fourth that of the U.S., the dominant Arab of the Middle East's Arab heartland...
...tall buildings and vanilla ice cream. In the encounter of two such dynamic protagonists as Villa-Lobos and the U.S., onlookers expected even more to happen before he returns to Rio de Janeiro, where he is the city's amateur three-cushion billiards champion as well as musical overlord of Brazil's Ministry of Education...