Word: highhandedness
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Declaration of War. Asahi's private power struggle became the talk of Japan, and the paper's indecisive editors, who had the courage to veto Mrs. Murayama's mandates but could not find a way to keep her quiet, lost considerable face. To recover some, five board...
Poured Money. Defferre tried to avoid any impression of being the "American candidate." By criticizing De Gaulle's highhanded policy, he "does not at all mean to say that France or any other European country should be subordinated to the U.S. I have come here to make it clear...
Sometimes, of course, his highhanded ways enraged rank-and-file Democratic Senators. There was the time when North Dakota's Quentin Burdick and Ohio's Stephen Young, both Democrats but a bit too liberal to be members of the Johnson fan club, badly wanted two vacancies that had...
Irene's fate was already sealed. By arriving in triumph with Carlos, instead of meekly returning alone to listen to official advice, the highhanded princess angered many important politicians-Catholic and Calvinist alike-who might have helped her. For the Dutch constitution specifies that an heir to the throne...
In constant fear, Nkrumah never ventures out of Flagstaff House, his official residence in Accra, without a heavy police guard. Wearing bright red tunics and carrying submachine guns and automatic rifles, guards from Osagyefo's own Nzima tribe-the only tribe he really trusts-constantly patrol the presidential palace...