Word: despotism
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...coal, steel and industrial production are sagging far below earlier boastful figures. And for all his claims that Red China is moving into an entirely new phase of human development, Mao has found no other way to whip up his unenthusiastic masses than the timeworn device employed by every despot since the world began: border troubles, troop movements, and the bogeyman of foreign attack...
...tomcat, and a colossal ego. He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself. He fancied himself as a freedom-loving "citizen of the world," yet ended up drawing his sword for a despot. But John Paul Jones could certainly do one thing: he could fight a ship as have few men before or since-and Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S.N.R. (ret.), dean of U.S. naval historians (13 volumes so far of the History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II), can write...
Premier Khrushchev's treatment of Boris Pasternak after the publication of Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel Doctor Zhivago is an example of what happens when a despot poses as an intellectual, James H. Bellington, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center stated, at one of the four forums yesterday morning...
...this project, says Author Duggan, makes us "inclined to dismiss it as absurd." But the Romans were "genuinely afraid" of it. Before Mithradates could attempt his march on Italy, his son Pharnaces II led a revolution to overthrow him. Trapped in his own palace, the 69-year-old despot barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten by the ruined populace of Asia Minor...
Mahdawi: Nasser is a villain, despot, a vile President, a Pharaoh Ramses who could not break the will of the struggling Syrians. His newspapers are all servants of Dulles...