Word: generalissimoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works. While the usually impassive Dag Hammarskjold smiled down from his seat a few feet above the rostrum, Khrushchev flailed the air with a clenched fist and shouted that Hammarskjold was "a creature of the imperialists." A few moments later, in a lightning transition, he labeled Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco "the hangman of the Spanish people...
Among Uncle Sam's motley assortment of bosom friends, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek has never been known to be red hot for civil liberties and that sort of thing. He is, if only by virtue of his friendliness (or perhaps dependence), a pleasant alternative to Mao TseTung, but the internal affairs of the island of Formosa have occasionally become an embarrassing skeleton in the United States' diplomatic closet...
...Fabiola de Mora. Madrid society gasped. "Astounding!" cried one count in clipped accents and added, "Are you absolutely sure it's Fabiola?" One of her friends said loyally, "She is very devout, very Spanish, just what foreigners think most Spanish girls are like-not like the new generation." Generalissimo Franco wired King Baudouin his congratulations and his hope that the marriage will "reinforce the already traditional bonds* of friendship and esteem which unite our countries...
...Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
...Generalissimo Franco followed the script that other modern dictators have written, he would have declared almost every living Spanish artist a degenerate and banned his works. But Spain's artistic roots go deep. Last week in two major exhibits in Manhattan-one at the Museum of Modern Art, the other at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-U.S. gallerygoers could see that the heirs of Goya and El Greco had plunged headlong into their own brand of abstract expressionism...