Word: jackboot
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...year-old monarch's ugly stepmother was the tradition of 36 years of jackboot authoritarianism under General Francisco Franco. Competing for the nation's attentions were two ugly stepsisters--the anachronistic force of the Right and extremists of the Left who hoped to rush the process...
After a military band played both national anthems, an honor guard of several hundred Soviet soldiers marched past with jackboot precision. Crowds waving miniature Polish and Soviet flags lined the roadside as a 50-limousine motorcade whisked Jaruzelski, his aides and their Soviet hosts into the capital. Marveled one Western observer in Moscow: "This is the biggest reception anyone has got here in a long time...
...prison reforms of the '60s. Once he was chained to a floor naked for 13 days. Another time he was kept in darkness for a month. He was sometimes forced to eat insects to survive. Reform was even more horrifying. Heavy injections of Thorazine -chemical lobotomy-replaced the jackboot. Overcrowding forced Abbott into cells with ethnic militants, who derided his Chinese-Irish heritage. Homosexual punks and homicidal psychopaths were everywhere. "It is only a matter of time," he notes, "if you love life too much or fear violence too much, before you become a thing, no longer...
...denounce the Soviet army's blitz against Afghanistan, he used what for him was an unfamiliar prop. As Carter talked about "the strategic importance" of the attack, a color-coded map of the embattled region flashed on the screen. It illustrated his warning that the Soviet jackboot was now firmly planted on "a stepping stone to possible control over much of the world's oil supplies...
...executed. The King, rescued from the ruins of Buckingham Palace, is imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Queen and their two daughters are in exile in Australia. Thousands of Britons have been deported to work in German factories. A puppet government is ensconced in Westminster, but the Nazis jackboot the country as roughly as they ran occupied France. In Britain, too, there is a tough Resistance movement, as well as profiteers who will provide any quo for a quid...