Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the national anthem. The crowded Assembly bowed three times before Sun's likeness; Wu mumbled Sun's will. Then from the chairman's aged hand the Gimo received the Constitution, bound in red and gold. He made a brief speech of thanks, ending with a threefold 'Long Live China!' As he walked offstage, beaming and bowing, the delegates echoed 'Long Live China...
Division in Washington. The Committee of Three requested the views of Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. Commander in the China Theater. Wede-meyer's response was immediate, explosive and threefold...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek tightened up his Government in a threefold move last week...
Britain's Policy. Europe's crises were threshed out in Britain's House of Commons. To a perturbed and sometimes heckling House, Foreign Secretary Eden explained that Britain's policy in liberated Europe has a threefold purpose: 1) to achieve victory; 2) to keep order behind the lines of the Allied armies; 3) to provide fair and untrammeled elections of governments and parliaments, free acceptance or rejection of royal houses...