Word: despot
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...some extent. He was always inclined to be a little dictatorial . . . but nowadays he brooks no criticism and will not even suffer advice gladly. He is highly conscious of his place in history . . . Jawahar is ambitious for India. Whether his one-man control . . . has made him a benevolent despot is a matter of opinion." Nehru's sister concludes: "In the eyes of the world, he is undoubtedly the only man in India who can guide and control her destiny in these difficult times. Nevertheless, there is danger for him and for India if he is spoiled too much with...
...regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot No. 2. Inevitably, No. 2 got to thinking of himself as a likely successor. But that was not to be. Last week Anselmo Paulino was a broken man, stripped of his influential office and his beloved uniform, out of power and under arrest...
Summing up on our loss of friends among nations of the world, TIME did not take the opportunity to call attention to the insensate despot that now rules the U.S., Russia, France and England. This despot is the H-bomb. Its power is so great that it can cause mutual destruction . . . I believe most Americans (except Senator Knowland, et al.) would regret very much to have this happen...
Gorin likes Feodor, and before long Novikov's subtle brand of doubletalk has the old writer naively whitewashing Stalinist tyranny by eulogizing Russia's mad despot, Ivan the Terrible. The Kremlin bravos. But Gorin is heartsick at betraying his own values, and makes indiscreet remarks about the regime. From Veria, Feodor receives new orders, and he carries them out by smashing Gorin's head against a radiator until it is a bloody pulp...
...which this year originated for the first time outside of Britain, she deplored the tendency to compare her reign with that of Elizabeth I. "Frankly, I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forebear, who was blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been . . . was yet great in spirit and well-endowed with men who were ready to encompass the earth . . . The Commonwealth bears no resemblance to the empires...