Word: feudal
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...anti-Dio elements of the U.A.W.-A.F.L. International's executive board tried to get rid of Dio, Tony Doria fought the action, finally arranged for the union to buy Dio's resignation. The price, cash on the barrelhead: $16,000. Dio took the money-and like a feudal prince, took his locals too. He moved over to the Teamsters and began trying to grab the New York Teamster leadership for ambitious Jimmy Hoffa...
Until a few years before the Bolshevik Revolution, it appears, herds of aurochs roamed the fictional forest of Kratovits, a great feudal estate in Baltic Kurland, founded as a fortress in the Middle Ages by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The aurochs were the last of their kind surviving from prehistoric times. What the lords of Kratovits did not know was that they were soon to be as extinct as these primitive bison...
...Azikiwe, Prime Minister of the Ibo East moved into town with all the fanfare of hopeful candidates at a U.S. national convention. Each installed a huge staff in a top Mayfair hotel and hired a pressagent to get the bandwagons going. Meanwhile, as spokesman for the proud and feudal Moslem emirs of the North, who want independence with no democratic folderol to go with it, the Sardauna let it be known that only a Northerner would be acceptable as Premier to the 17 million people of his region, who outnumber both other regions combined...
...dominant Istiqlal (Independence) Party. Worried about a nationwide drought which has cut food supplies, concerned over growing unemployment in the cities as French capital withdraws, the Istiqlal looked upon the gathering of the Glaoui clan as both an exasperation and an opportunity to divert discontent. Pointing to the "feudal lords" and "collaborators" driving their big cars through the hungry countryside, trade unionists shouted in the streets of Marrakech: "El Glaoui's wealth must be returned to the people...
...release the Glaoui sons until the huge estate could be examined and any fraudulent holdings returned to "the people." While the French government demanded the sons' release, the Sultan dithered, torn between his pledge of protection to El Glaoui's sons and the awkwardness of backing his feudal enemy against his Istiqlal supporters. The Sultan was reluctant to admit that he was not in full control of his young country. After 36 hours of hesitation, he audaciously decided to take credit for the whole thing. A government communiqué announced that the Glaoui sons "have been engaged...