Word: bustas
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone infallible," he once told his followers, "it is only me-only...
...Rich." By last week, however, a good many Jamaicans had concluded that infallibility is a big word. Busta had promised more jobs, better prices, and increased incentives for farm production. Instead, while the cost-of-living index zoomed (up 300% since 1939), wages lagged. Last week some 150,000 Jamaicans (total population: 1,320,000) were unemployed, and many poor families had taken to living in old automobile bodies...
Worst of all, Barrister Manley, with whom Busta had split a decade ago, was seriously threatening both his unions and the Labor Party. Bustamante's unions had sagged from 75,000 to 45,000 members. Manley's anti-Communist People's National Party was openly boasting that it would sweep Busta out of office in next year's elections, and Manley himself seemed to rate high with the British Labor government's Colonial Office...
...Worried, Busta huffed about Manley's "Communist monsters," then grew indifferent and plaintive by turns. "If I am not returned," he told the House disdainfully, "I will retire and get rid of all this bother, because I am rich...