Word: twerpish
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...ists for which they had only the wildest enthusiasm. Last November, without the use of a single regiment, Japan's Major General Kenji Doihara set up a pro-Japanese "autonomous government" in eastern Hopei known as the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism. Its head was a twerpish-looking young man known as Yin Ju-keng, whose only flash of independence is a stolid refusal to allow himself to be photo graphed with his two Japanese advisers...
...Twerpish Sirs...
Your description of Yin Ju-keng (TIME, Dec. 30, p. 15) as "twerpish-looking" reminds me of Mark Twain's statement about the crocodile, which could not have another name because no other animal looks so much like a crocodile...
...head the fast-growing Japanese-dominated "Autonomous Government" in North China headed by twerpish-looking Mr. Yin Ju-keng. who deceives nobody by styling himself "General,", a thumping Chinese Big Name was badly needed last week by Japan...
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