Word: pliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Piece of Pork. This Japanese Army pronouncement had the authentic ring of those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former...
...Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating coils and a fan. When the body was warm and pliant, Dr. Willard gave the monkey a blood transfusion, then injected adrenalin chloride solution into the belly...
...statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone else was dead beat, exhausted, pliant...
...chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice which to a stranger sounds disinterested. But when she says in an offhand way "I think it would be nice if . . ." there is not an underling on her newspaper who mistakes it for anything but a command...
...strong, lone warrior like Arabian King Ibn Saud (see col. I) is his neighbor on the north, pliant King Feisal of Irak who leans like an unsteady reed on sturdy Britons...