Word: ironfistedness
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Outburst of Pique. Groppi and his Youth Council "commandos," most of them husky, high-spirited Negro lads, failed during the August riots to march on the Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the...
Soon the mother abbess (Peggy Wood) finds a solution. She sends the moonbeam off to shine as governess for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline...
Trouble. What was behind Castro's sudden image-polishing? Washington's Castrologists put it in a word: trouble. Though Castro remains in ironfisted control of his island, the economy is just barely bumping along, cut off from any real trade with the West and without enough help from...
Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asuncion capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for...
Unshared Prize. To Kassem the coup must have seemed only too familiar. In the same way back in 1958, Kassem seized power by ruthlessly slaughtering King Feisal II and his ironfisted, pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, who was caught trying to escape the city dressed in women's clothes...