Word: morinigo
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...omen for democracy when South American dictators discuss it. On Christmas Eve Paraguay's untutored strong man, Higinio Morinigo, delivered a 1,200-word fireside chat on democracy. "Real democracy," he said, was government which "expresses its will within social order, mutual respect, public morale." Further, the dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina...
Bauer predicted the Chaco War and its victorious ending. He predicted the presidency of José Félix Estigarribia. When he predicted the presidency of Higinio Morinigo (another unlikely event which came to pass), the grateful Morinigo made him a sort of court prophet, consulting him often on matters of state...
Recently Bauer began to stroke his beard and rumble unwelcome words. President Morinigo, he said, would have revolution trouble. He did, and barely survived. Bauer prophesied a wave of popular opposition. He was right again. A few weeks ago, with a sweeping stroke of his beard, he predicted Morinigo's downfall...
Rising to the emergency, President Morinigo hustled the prophet off to jail, called the prison barber. Now Bauer, beardless, lives in a little house near...
...About the time of President Morinigo's inauguration, his mother is said to have remarked: "If I had known he was going to be President, I would have sent him to school...