Word: politicoes
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...much of it was reduced to rubble. Aided and supplied from outside, Greek Communists were fighting-and winning-a bloody guerrilla war against their fellow countrymen. The future of Greece's throne offered at best a long-shot gamble, but with the fervor and thoroughness of a born politico, Frederika set to work canvassing her constituents and winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen or the royal couple together. They...
...farmers are mad," a Republican politico said last week...
...direction keeps the film moving briskly and Cagney dominates the film in the grand manner of the 19305, when he was Hollywood's top tough-guy star. Though he looks and sounds far more Broadway than Deep South, he is thoroughly persuasive as a fast-talking politico equally able to bamboozle a backwoods crowd or to make a deal with big-city gangsters. Good shot: Cagney's shrewd mixture of friendliness and contempt as he joshes his neighbors into turning a broken-down house into a honeymoon cottage for himself and his bride...
Later, at a solo press conference, he was more expansive. Waving his left hand, which flashed with a diamond bracelet containing 812 diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...
...India, a Hindu politico put it more vividly: "Whenever a great Mogul ascended to the throne in ancient India, he killed all his brothers and cousins because of fear that they might challenge his position. Russia's rulers are only following this bloody custom. Malenkov has begun the massacre of all Stalin's potential heirs...