Word: warlord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...
...year, for the first time in the history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...
...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...
...still wallowing in the same old rut of poverty, famine, and ignorance, under the yoke of a regime unsupported by a great majority of the people. These generally obscured accounts seem to indicate that Chiang is in no sense of the word, a "democrat," but is instead, a totalitarian warlord. By feeding his war machine, the United States is injuring the Chinese people and is denying its own principles of government...
...Warlord of Mazelaine-champion boxer-TIME, Feb. 25] in a show last year, and I found that he was very conceited in his own doggish manner. Could it be that he realizes his importance in the dog world? I don't think it is like a boxer to act this way, but such is life when you have all the things you want...