Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters who visited the hotel last week found that it had stood up remarkably well. Some 400 incendiaries had gutted the south wing, burning out 150 bedrooms. Also destroyed was the Imperial's fancy Peacock Hall. The rest of the building was rubble-littered and damaged but usable, and already put to housing U.S. brass hats. Outside, red and white lilies bloomed in the pool...
Last week the hotel's management begged Wright (via Domei) to come back and rebuild the gutted wing. Said Wright: let the Japs do it themselves...
...left wing fumed. It wanted a Fourth Republic. But it did not want any lofty treatment. It talked of forcing a Cabinet crisis, then thought better of such a maneuver. It condemned the General's election machinery as "not conforming with true proportional representation...
...Communist wing of the Peasant Party also tried a little fission of its own. In Warsaw it set up a new party policymaking body called "Peasant Self Aid." "Conservatives" would not be included...
...nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian boss, shrewd Michael Borodin...