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Gung ho (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ ŋ ˈ h oʊ /) is an English term, with the current meaning of 'enthusiastic or energetic', especially overly so.It originated during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) from a Chinese term, 工合 (pinyin: gōnghé; lit. 'to work together'), short for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Chinese: 工業合作社; pinyin: Gōngyè Hézuòshè).
Tangled Webs shares this sense of tongue-in-cheek, self-mocking, gung-ho fun in a non-stop barrage of increasingly hostile situations hung extremely loosely around a sketchy plot. Liriel, the oddest Drow you ever met and Fyodor, her Beserker boyfriend, hex and hack their way through an overly long sea voyage from Skullport to Ruathym .
In 2015 the book was revised and released as The New One Minute Manager. [12] Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership® (1985) (in which he coined the term seagull manager) Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (1993) Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization (1997)
Carlson adopted the phrase "gung ho" from Rewi Alley's Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. [3] Carlson often had leftwing political views, prompting General David M. Shoup to say of him, "He may be red, but he's not yellow." [4] When Carlson left China in 1938, he was commended by the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet for his services.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The term Ribbons of Shame was popularized by the 1986 movie Gung Ho, starring Michael Keaton. [5]
Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!:The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott.The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.
During this time, he published his first works of literary criticism: a series of short notes on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in A Wake Newslitter, and book reviews for a Denver arts magazine called Spree. He also wrote his first book, A Readers Guide to William Gaddis's "The Recognitions", published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1982
Throughout the series, Vash interacts with and befriends many people across the globe. Opposing him and his companions is his twin brother Millions Knives, who hates humans and his way of life. Closely following Knives is Legato Bluesummers, a cold and powerful man who is the leader of the Gung-Ho Guns, a group of super-powered assassins.