Word: martinet
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...Uganda's porcine President-for-Life, Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, 49, a man of mercurial personality, who in a short six years has caught the world's attention with his unpredictable and often deadly antics. He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet. He can be as playful as a kitten and as lethal as a lion. He stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and carries a massive bulk of nearly 300 lbs., and within that girth courses the unharnessed ego of a small child, a craze for attention and reverence. Last week...
...been convicted of an honor code violation. Referring to Verr's experience, Cadet William Andersen, the present head of the Honor Committee, issued a statement declaring that "a significant number of us disagree with Berry's decision." Added Andersen, who is considered a zealot and a martinet by a number of cadets as well as officers, and has been accused of conducting vendettas against those who do not measure up to his rigid standards: "While we have no authority or right to infringe on the human dignity [of individuals], we have the right to choose who we associate...
...champion scatologists, he argues, are Germans, who tend to roll in the aisles after the first hint of a comic's outhouse smirk. Is martinet toilet training the explanation? Farb wonders but never decides...
...plight of the weary pack, however, is minor compared to the afflication that has palsied the White House campaign press corps since 1969--gelded by the tactics of another White House martinet, press secretary Ronald Ziegler. The pressure to remain a conventional and submissive mass is crippling on Pennsylvania Avenue: If the writers don't stay in line, they risk Ziegler's "ominous pat on the back." After that they might expect to receive tax audits, be ignored at press conferences, or be manipulated into squabbles over scoops with colleagues from their own paper. When Clark Mollenhoff...
...words seemed to convey the utmost reasonableness. There was none of the jut-jawed belligerence of a Duce, none of the menacing rhetoric of a swaggering martinet. In fact, an ironic, Pirandellian sense of split realities was inescapable. Here was a former functionary of Benito Mussolini's last government denouncing the "totalitarian" ways of contemporary Italy...