Word: bullyboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news reached Paris on the eve of a full-dress debate on the Algerian situation in the Chamber of Deputies, and gave emotional force to the right's demand for stronger action in Algeria. Shouted Poujadist Bullyboy Jean-Marie Le Pen: "The problem in North Africa is military before everything else." But the news also strengthened the government's demand that French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste get special powers to handle the situation. With his opening words to the Assembly, Lacoste drew a crash of applause from everyone except the Communists : "Not a single Frenchman-I say this...
...basic personality types, and told how to recognize some of the tricks of the unconscious in employees' behavior. Examples: a compulsive, conservative accountant may be reacting against childhood impulses to be dirty and rebellious; an ambitious man may have developed from a passive child, a philanthropist from the bullyboy who tied tin cans to cats' tails; an employee oversuspicious of everybody else's motives may act that way because his own unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will not even ask for a raise may be covering up intolerable aggressions. Dr. Modlin...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
...Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty, 65-year-old Marxist bullyboy of French Communism who has been slipping down the hierarchy of the party, reached the bottom rung. After being booted from a succession of top posts, his own local cell came to a decision: Marty is "no longer fit to be a member of the party." In Washington, Senator Joe McCarthy...
Professor in Power. Here was no half-literate army bullyboy. Paz was one nationalist fanatic who talked cold business like a businessman, a former economics professor who had balanced a budget and knew the cost of sweeping reform. But with his economist's eyes wide open, Dictator Paz took the plunge by nationalizing tin at once in spite of his empty treasury. It was a political decision. "You forced me to do it," he told a representative of the tin companies...