Word: despots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed the Tigers into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room. Hutch had won. If we got kindling, he had lost." But for all his anger, Hutch the manager is a gentle despot, careful not to dress down his players in public, never to ridicule their mistakes. "You can't go up to a man who's making $25,000 a year," he says, "and start joking about his work. It just isn't funny...
...each of the last three years. And the acreage restriction plan encourages an exploitative attitude toward the government--give Orville your worst land and seed the rest more heavily. In sum, the role of the government in Freeman's paradise is that of a silly and meddlesome despot whose chief idols are underproduction, inefficiency, and waste...
...lanky fellow with a fanatic's fiery eyes, Geneticist Trofim Lysenko was Stalin's favorite scientist. Thirteen years ago, he blossomed before the world as the self-taught despot of Soviet biological science, proclaiming his fantastic dogma that Communists could change nature at will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer...
...prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep the people of Ethiopia for long in ignorance and poverty at the feet of a despot...