Word: despotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Jefferson paid ?3/15s for a luxury - a thermometer - and that evening he set down in his journal that the Philadelphia temperature was 73½°. If he said so, it was so. Thomas Jefferson was a man who knew, and meant, what he said, and no despot could have made him change his mind...
...conspirator, if he is not restraining trade, if he isn't preventing the normal forces of competition which determine the demand and price which a laborer is able to command on an open market, then I wasted three years in the Army, 22 months overseas, helping restrain a despot who did that very thing. ... If we people will only let it be known how we feel, maybe the proper authorities will screw up their courage to the sticking point and put John L. where he belongs-either in Russia, or behind the bars...
Beautee Soap is the stake at which herds of miserable Radio Citymen are burned alive 24 hours a day, to appease both Despot Evans' sadistic love of power and Beautee, and their own terror at the thought of losing Beautee's ten-million-dollar advertising account...
...Sophocles' story, the slangy prose he had often substituted for austere poetry, the modern flourishes (card playing, automobiles) and modern dress. They gave a mild fillip to a classic story, but they did not make for an effective play. This Antigone, barring its one big clash between despot and defier, was flat, fumbly theater. This Antigone, shorn of her Resistance aura, was unmoving and unreal. And in a modernish setting, the burial issue on which the plot hinges seemed outlandishly bizarre...
...great part of my family is still in Santo Domingo, I am forced to ask you to keep this matter confidential as retaliation is the weapon that the despot uses in the most effective manner...