Word: despot
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...general elections. Laborites, who control the Storting with 85 out of 150 members, may lose twelve seats (and their majority) under a new reapportionment law, but with Liberal support they can retain power handily. In that event, Wilhelm Thagaard, a well-intentioned man with the powers of a despot, will go right on deciding what's best for Norway's fearful businessmen...
Rarely had the U.S. been so nearly unanimous about 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...
Doorman into Despot. The company's doorman turned out to be the head of 150 Nazis among the house's employees, and soon he was telling the Ullsteins whom to hire & fire and what to print. After all Jewish editors were fired, the Ullsteins were ordered to sell out to non-Jews. For the enterprise, easily worth $20 million, the brothers had to take about $4,300,000 from a buyer who was not named. He turned out to be Hitler himself. Soon the Nazis milked the Ullsteins of most of the $4,300,000 with trumped...
...mystical patterns, it is a hard one to follow, in this century or any other. In Wisdom, Saint-Ex imagines himself as a desert prince sharing his accumulated wisdom with his subjects (he loved the Sahara and the tradition-ruled life of its people). He is a benevolent despot, brave, warlike, just and unsentimental, the kind of man with whom T. E. Lawrence would have been proud to share a tent...
...historians of the Soviet Union," notes Biographer Eckardt, who is a professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Like the Soviet historians, Eckardt goes over Ivan's matted reign with a fine-tooth comb; unlike them, he refrains from minimizing the diabolical cruelties of a despot who made even such a hard-faced operator as Cesare Borgia look like a cherubic innocent. Nonetheless, Eckardt does his best to follow the rule he paraphrases from Philosopher Benedetto Croce: "Not to insist upon a description of horrors in history [but] to find in sorrow and terror the starting-point...