Word: fignol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steamroller. Young Daniel Fignolé, a 28-year-old Socialist ex-mathematics teacher with a magnetic voice and brooding eyes, sparked the barrel of hatred. He picked a humdrum black soldier as the poor man's presidential candidate, promised the blacks the houses, cars and mistresses of the elite. When he visited poor black quarters, hordes of men, women & children in various states of undress pressed about his car, climbed on to it, beat voodoo rhythms on the fenders, danced and tumbled in ecstasy, roared: "Vive Fignol...
...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...
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