Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the Communists have successfully sold themselves as the true reformers, the genuine nationalists, the fighters against imperialism. Their agrarian program, their well-behaved armies, and their recent firing on British warships support these claims...
Since the end of the war, Chiang has received more than $3,000,000,000 from the U. S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious--incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support...
...enables him to shift his conversation or speeches into language of such needle-sharp simplicity and directness that it can go straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about 70% of his island's population. They are still the bedrock basis of his power...
...World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...
...Durocher, suspended from baseball for the second time Friday by Commissioner Albert B. Chandler after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...