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Word: kuomintang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating it and sipping it from tiny cups. But he didn't seem a bit influenced by alcohol. I suppose he can take it more like a gentleman than any other man in the whole Kuomintang [Chinese Government Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Troubles of a Tosspot | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

With utter tactlessness, Wang declared his Government the representative of the original and only Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), preempted the flag with a twelve-point star which Chinese soldiers carry in battle, absorbed all existing Japanese puppet regimes, commanded China's civil servants to leave Chungking and join him. He took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Tale of a Turncoat | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

NANKING--The central political conference of the orthodox Kuomintang--Nationalist--Party, meeting to prepare for the inauguration here of the new Japan-sponsored "National Governor of China" on March 30, today solved the problem of protecting Japan's "special interest" in North China by reviving the old "North China Political Affairs Commission" as a regional government for the northern provinces...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

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