How To Use Generalissimo In A Sentence
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'The only happy man in all this was the generalissimo.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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The OSS was officially committed to working with Chiang Kai-shek, but it was not clear which enemy the Generalissimo was more committed to fighting—the Japanese invaders who had laid waste to his country for seven years or his Communist compatriots in the north.
A Covert Affair
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Joe even managed an invitation to a garden party given for the generalissimo and Madame Chiang.
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In April 1918, Foch was appointed supreme generalissimo of the Allied forces on the Western Front - a position that gave him supreme command over all Allied forces on the Western Front.
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In October 1936, Franco was appointed generalissimo of Nationalist Spain and head of state.
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The generalissimo was a brutal, corrupt, and ineffective commander who wanted the Americans to fight his war with the Japanese while he husbanded his army to battle Mao’s communists.
Wild Bill Donovan
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The old generalissimo would not recognise his country in the 21st century: gone is the xenophobia and the heavy hand of a police state.
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Her resistance to Generalissimo Franco's Nationalists endowed her with legendary status.
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The president of this council is the Minister of War; the vice president is known as the generalissimo of the French army.
Foch the Man
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Hitler wanted to be the Feldherr, the generalissimo, exercising direct control of the armies himself, in much the same sense that Wellington commanded at Waterloo, albeit at a distance.
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Prevailing relations between the Americans and Chinese officialdom, including the generalissimo, were strained when I arrived.
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Much of this influence has to do with his prominence not only as an academic philosopher but as an empire-builder who has been called the generalissimo of French higher education.
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Driven out of the city by the Hakka General the previous year, Sun had been allowed to take back the title of generalissimo by two other warlords: General Yang of the Army of Yunnan and General Liu of the Army of Kwangsi, both provinces lying west of Canton’s province of Kwangtung.
The Last Empress
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Mr. Hamm mostly acted as Tina Fey's straight man, but, he did have one great reaction to her, when she called herself the "generalissimo": "I don't even know what that means!
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During the hectic review of endless shots of the uniformed generalissimos looking on approvingly in the stadium, he spotted a famous face, an honored guest of the murderous junta.
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General Chen Cheng, chief of staff and a half-pint counterpart of the generalissimo, lost nearly every battle he directed in the Japanese and the civil wars.
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On 1 November of that same year he was elected head of state of Nationalist Spain and generalissimo of its armies, but General Franco's rebel regime needed three long years of civil war to gain control of the whole nation.
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But if they cannot persuade him to serve, someone will be found over the next few weeks and months, and you can bet that the generalissimo will launch a serious and organised campaign.
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The generalissimo was a man of few, usually cryptic, words.
Daring Young Men
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‘I was led through double doors to meet generalissimos who jumped around like monkeys and talked like children’, he huffed.
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He called the generalissimo's brother-in-law el cuñadísimo.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
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They might coax or bully, interrogate or probe, but rarely do we see them issuing orders or acting like a generalissimo.
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The inherent weakness of the Marne salient from the German point of view and the opportunity which it offered the Allied command had not been forgotten by the generalissimo.
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
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He also accepted the role of chief of staff to the generalissimo.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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It is mistaken to dismiss the generalissimo as an absurd figure.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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He was also known to refer to the generalissimo as “a lily-livered Chink” and a “slant-eyed snake.”
The Last Empress
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If the generalissimo had been capable of listening to advice the war might have been averted.
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Shogun is more accurately - "generalissimo" or better understood as "Military Dictator", The most famous probably being Tokugawa Ieyasu, who found the Tokugawa Shogunate (c. 1603-1868), a period a great peace, stability and prosperity in Japanese History, ending with the Meiji Restoration.
Army Rumour Service
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But Kao got no satisfaction from the generalissimo either.
