Word: macho
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...Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s...
COLIN POWELL At the 2004 ASEAN talent show, Powell, then Secretary of State, proved himself a macho, macho man with a rendition of the Village People's YMCA...
...innocent of the crime he did time for, but that doesn't make him likable, as Ann must find out for herself. She is the pivotal figure and the audience's surrogate. First she's repulsed by Joe, then feels drawn into his macho orbit, then pulls herself together and out of her entanglement. Joe, in turn, is attracted to her attraction for him. "If I had a gun I'd stop you," she says in the early going; and he, acknowledging a woman's power over a man, replies, "You don't need a gun." Later, teary and sexy...
...army's radio and journal. (At age 35, seven years into his career as a member of the Knesset, he enrolled in an officer-training course, emerging as a second lieutenant and polishing his political résumé.) Not that Olmert seems fazed by his past: he is outwardly macho and even arrogant. "He is not afraid to confront anyone, to make his place in history," says an aide to a Cabinet minister...
...comic books, bore similarities to his cavalier hero ("I don't give a hoot about ... reviews. What I want to read are royalty checks," he liked to say) but revealed a softer, subtler side in the '70s and '80s, writing two well-received children's books and parodying his macho image in TV ads for Miller Lite beer...