Word: praetorianism
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Race day in North Wilkesboro dawns gray and sullen. Heavy rains have turned the red clay infield into an axle-deep quagmire. At noon, ten Petty crewmen, proud as Praetorian Guards, push his glittering racer down pit lane for inspection. At 1:20 p.m. Army skydivers flutter to a gooey landing in the infield. Then a preacher leads the drivers in prayer and the rhine-stoned Carolina Dogwood Festival Queen bestows a kiss on Driver Bobby Allison for winning the pole position. At 1:52 p.m. Petty, wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver...
Mobilized last week by Chicago's top union officials in appreciation of Mayor Daley's "service to the working people," the banquet was touted as the biggest under one roof in the chronicle of mankind.* After Daley made his way to the dais, flanked by a praetorian guard of Chicago's labor elite, dinner was served to 10,158 labor leaders, rank-and-file members and their wives and girl friends...
...adroitly balancing generals and bishops, Opus Dei technocrats and Falangists. Nonetheless, the real basis of his power has been the fidelity of the Spanish army. Last week, as the tense country awaited the outcome of the stormy trial of 16 Basque terrorists, the uniformed leaders of Franco's praetorian guard closed ranks around the Caudillo-so tightly, in fact, that it was hard to tell whether they had actually pulled a coup...
...cover story last June 8, "Nixon's Palace Guard," noted that the key figures around Nixon-Staff Chief Bob Haldeman, Domestic Affairs Aide John Ehrlichman, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger -had variously acquired the nicknames: "the Berlin Wall," "all the King's Krauts," "the throne nursers," "the Praetorian Gaurd," and "the Germans...
THEIR REVOLT was crushed in short order. But then, no regime can tolerate for long an uprising of its own praetorian guard, and when a group of sailors at Kronstadt confronted the Bolsheviks with cries of unfilled promises and scorn for falsified slogans, the government had no choice but to act fast...