Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of teh People's Repbulic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply
Mao .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
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Examples
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
MJ Rosenberg: Don't Bomb Iran, Contain It (Like the USSR) MJ Rosenberg 2012
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
MJ Rosenberg: Don't Bomb Iran, Contain It (Like the USSR) MJ Rosenberg 2012
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We're into an orgy of sin and confession right now that brings to mind the old Stalinist show trials of the 1930s and the culture of confession practiced by the Chinese government since the days of Mao Tse-tung.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
MJ Rosenberg: Don't Bomb Iran, Contain It (Like the USSR) MJ Rosenberg 2012
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At that time, the rise of Deng seemed just another twist in the operatic political struggles in China that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung that same year.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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"You'll negotiate with Mao Tse-tung, yet you cut off an 8-year-old," Colbert teased him.
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At that time, the rise of Deng seemed just another twist in the operatic political struggles in China that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung that same year.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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We're into an orgy of sin and confession right now that brings to mind the old Stalinist show trials of the 1930s and the culture of confession practiced by the Chinese government since the days of Mao Tse-tung.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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"You'll negotiate with Mao Tse-tung, yet you cut off an 8-year-old," Colbert teased him.
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
MJ Rosenberg: Don't Bomb Iran, Contain It (Like the USSR) MJ Rosenberg 2012
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