Word: satraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have remarked: "She did well, Jacqueline, to give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators were still disproportionately distressed, like the Italian columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways." It was left to Novelist Gore Vidal, no admirer of the Kennedys, to deliver the week...
...politics was his real interest, and Jack soon earned a reputation as a loyal if lackluster satrap of Tammany Hall. When the Manhattan borough presidency became available in 1953. Jack was available. He was proud to point out that he was the highest-paid ($25,000 per year) Negro to hold elective office...
...named José Almoina Mateos, who had been the dictator's private secretary from 1945 to 1947. Though Almoina had written a slavishly pro-Trujillo book called I Was Trujillo's Secretary, he was also the author of an anonymous and bitter denunciation of the dictator called Satrap in the Caribbean. One morning last week, as Almoina walked to work in Mexico City, a green 1958 Ford ran him down. Then, just to be sure, one of the occupants of the car ran back and pumped three slugs from a .38-caliber automatic into him. As stretcher...