Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The President did not underestimate Khrushchev's menace. "You may recall," he said, "that there was once a dictator named Hitler who also said he would bury us. He wrote a long, dull book telling precisely how he was going to do it. Not enough people took him at...
The talk of Nicaragua last week was a poem. Honoring the memory of assassinated Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza-and reminding Nicaraguans that his dynasty continues in his sons-the government newspaper Novedades offered $140 for the best verse of homage to the dead President. The winning entry was 14 lines...
Portugal's Dictator Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's...
At one time Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser commended himself to the world as a strongman of reason, more concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator...
Argentina, determined to broaden its economic base and achieve self-sufficiency, built factories by decree, not in answer to economic demand. In eight years Dictator Juan Peron transformed Argentina's economy from predominantly agricultural to predominantly industrial, but left it saddled with inefficient plants making products that are priced...