Word: generalissimo
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...paces a minute, in the goose step that is traditional for military displays in Communist countries. Artillery pieces boomed out a 28-gun salute, a symbolic reminder of the 28 years it took Mao Tse-tung and his Communist armies to wrest the mainland from the control of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
...king "blew everyone away," said assistant professor of government Terry L. Karl yesterday, instituting a constitutional monarchy immediately after ascending the throne upon Generalissimo Francisco Franco's death...
...hand-picked successor to Generalissimo Francisco Franco--who ruled Spain with an iron grip from 1939 to his death in 1975--Juan Carlos succeeded to the throne and promptly instituted a constitutional monarchy...
...naming of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Yuri Andropov as Men of the Year marks the third occasion on which the editors of TIME have made a double selection. In 1937 TIME named China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Soong Mei-ling as Man and Wife of the Year for staunchly resisting the invading Japanese. Thirty-five years later, in 1972, President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger were chosen for their efforts to realign U.S. diplomacy and end the Viet Nam War. Each of these pairings was made up of celebrated figures...
...scarcely written these words when he met their reality headon. A few months after marrying Eileen O'Shaughnessy, 30, an Oxford graduate who was working for an advanced degree in psychology in London, Orwell went to Spain. The attempt by Generalissimo Francisco Franco to topple an elected left-wing government had led to civil war. Orwell could not pass up the chance to see "democracy standing up to Fascism at last." He arrived in Barcelona at the end of 1936 and found a city being run by the underdogs: "It was the first time that I had ever been...