Word: despotically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...