Word: czar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first corrections concerned his registered birthplace, Lowell, Mass. "I shall be born when and where I want," said Whistler, "and I do not choose to be born at Lowell." He was not averse to Baltimore, or even St. Petersburg, where his father had lived when building railroads for Czar Nicholas I, and occasionally accepted one of them as his birthplace...
...anything as in its hatred of what Stalin stood for. But the U.S. was far from being either unanimous or precise on why or what it hated. To some, Stalin was a personal despot who had betrayed the cause of Socialism and progress. To others, he was another expansionist czar who disturbed the peace of the world with aggression. To others, he was the typical and inevitable product of the Marxist religion...
...tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia's empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over the rest. More terrible than Ivan the Terrible, he enslaved millions in the name of freedom and sent millions to death in the name of improvement of the state. No corner of the world was safe from his ambition or secure from his intrigue. His word was gospel, his will law. He repealed truth and denied God. For millions, he was the infallible...
...British trade bargainer who had been bested in a deal by Miguel Miranda, Argentina's postwar economic czar, once said of him: "He is a trader, always was a trader, and at the end will try to trade with the Almighty to get himself into heaven." After World War II, when Europe was on its uppers, Miranda won dubious fame for his country by charging hungry European countries skyscraping prices for wheat and meat, and using the profits to finance Juan Perón's first five-year plan. Ousted from power in a feud with Evita...
...Catherine the Great's general, who won crushing victories over the Turks and the Poles, and in 1799, in the reign of Czar Paul, drove the French armies out of Italy for a while...