Word: compresseur
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With that ill-judged order, Déjoie's prestige began to drop. As it fell, up went the fortunes of another candidate, Daniel Fignole, a leftist spellbinder with a strong latent hold on the lowly blacks of Port-au-Prince. Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional...
...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...
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