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Word: savanarola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...actions with a threat to the nation's welfare, and he could be cruel to opponents. He thought in moral, not social, terms. Too often, while the unrest loosed by the very revolution he had set loose seethed around him. Chiang exhorted and scolded his people like a Savanarola, when the times called for vigorous social reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Man of the Single Truth | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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