Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly bombastic language and his trigger-happy troops may have been indications that events were spinning out of control in Panama, forcing him to extremes. But other evidence suggested that the dictator was losing control of himself: U.S. troops searching his various hideouts found, along with pictures of Adolf Hitler, collections of pornography and sophisticated weapons and more than 50 kilos of cocaine. In one Noriega guesthouse, searchers found a bucket of blood and entrails, which they said may have been used for occult rites to protect him. Was the accused drug trafficker deteriorating into a megalomaniac drug user...
...Year is not our version of the Nobel Peace Prize nor an attempt at canonization. It is a news judgment. Some subjects have been men of peace, like the Mahatma Gandhi (1930) and Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). Others have been evil, like Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1933). We have also had several Women of the Year, including Queen Elizabeth II and, for 1986, President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines...