Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm in Louisiana, is proud to have been the first to trip Spiro up. Besides the now-famous lies about turning down the Law Review and writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that really destroyed his credibility...
...remember our slogan," Mrs. Stanley Arnold, wife of the Pick-N-Pay supermarket czar who is running for President, said as she preened herself in the reflection of the marble slab next to the elevator of the Hotel Carpenter in Manchester...
...homesick Viet Cong terrorist writing to his mother from an assignment in Laos: "How I wish I could be home violating the truce accords." Down the street, Treasury Secretary William Simon hoards a series of Doonesburys drawn in 1972, when Simon was the nation's first energy czar. They show him issuing fiats from a throne and demanding "my signet ring...
...stove built on pillars in the middle of a field. He lay on the stove up to his elbows in cockroach milk." Since it is axiomatic in folk tales that the more wretched a peasant, the better his chances of making good, Bukhtan naturally ends up marrying the Czar's daughter...
...Ironically a favorite maxim of George Shultz. once President Nixon's economic czar...