Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of silence was shattered by protests from Kuomintang right-wingers, some of whom, like Chiang and Li, were on the Communist war criminal list. They objected to the use of "yin tut" (voluntary retirement), a classical Chinese phrase used by retiring officials leaving active duty for good. He could vacation; he could take a leave of absence; President Chiang Kai-shek should not "yin tui." But the Gimo was adamant; his statement would stand...
...Detroit Free Press, among many others, tut-tuts careless reporters who write over when they mean more than. The inconsistent Page One slogan of the Free Press: "On Guard for Over a Century...
...Rivals. One official who dared to live outside the Concentration Camp was former Foreign Minister U Tin Tut. He resigned from the government to head a loyal "Burmese Auxiliary Force" to fight the rebels.* One day last month, as he started to drive away from the office of the English-language New Times of Burma, a bomb planted in his car blew it to pieces. Tin Tut died two days later (TIME, Sept...
...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...
Died. Brigadier U Tin Tut, 54, leader in the fight against Burma's Communist rebellion, a negotiator of the Treaty of Independence with Britain, signed last Oct. 17; by assassins; in Rangoon, Burma...