Word: warlords
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...reduced research funds by $46 million. The Arkansas liberal, who for years has complained that much of the research is irrelevant, mocked the Defense Department's projects by ticking off some that have already been funded, including studies of "Militant Hindu Nationalism-The Early Phase" and "The Chinese Warlord System: 1916 to 1928." Fulbright's amendment also specified that the Pentagon cannot use funds to research any nonmilitary subjects...
...Creative Warlord. "The force used was the force that was necessary," insisted Police Superintendent James Conlisk Jr. He could point to the fortunate fact that no one was killed. He also pointed out-almost with pride-that the casualties included 152 cops. Yet the cops' excesses during the Democratic Convention were not basically Conlisk's doing. Chicago is Mayor Richard J. Daley's satrapy...
Daley takes a fierce, eccentric pride in Chicago. For 13 years, he has ruled his province like a Chinese warlord. The last of America's big-city bosses, the jowly, irascible mayor has on the whole been a creative autocrat, lacing his megalopolis with freeways, pulling in millions in federal spending...
...drive for enlightenment was momentarily interrupted when he incautiously crossed back into China and was promptly clapped into jail by the local warlord. Often chained and sometimes yoked, he languished there for 15 months until his colleagues wangled his release. He seized the chance to write 100 poems in classical Chinese, including one verse that compared man to a kernel of rice polished white and hard by the pestle...
Murder & Dope. Former Ranger Warlord George ("Mad Dog") Rose testified that Fry let the gang use the church basement as headquarters and then warned them about police raids. He said that Fry had even relayed a murder assignment to Rose. Mrs. Annabelle Martin, mother of eight Rangers, said that Fry allowed reefer parties and armed thugs in his church. Asked to repeat this to his face, she turned to Fry and said: "He can sit in my lap and I'll tell him the same. What do they teach those kids in that church? How to murder...