Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Model Strongman. In the 31st year of the Era of Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every...
...drinking army boss who had once shocked a dinner party at a Western embassy by slapping a bottle of cognac on the table and swigging from it all evening, explaining that his host's liquor was lousy. His sideline was running the lucrative national lottery. But after ousting Strongman Pibulsonggram, Sarit went off the bottle and then to work, house-cleaning Thailand from top to bottom. In La Guardia fashion, he roams the streets, checking on police and garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings...
Seven months ago, when Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel ordered the leaders of the deposed regime of Adnan Menderes to stand trial, expectation was that their cases would be wrapped up expeditiously, the junta's revolt against the Menderes government vindicated neatly, and Menderes & Co. put out of the way conveniently. But by last week, the i sth trial on Yassiada Island ended inconclusively, the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th trials were under way, the 1,000th witness took the stand to give testimony, and the Turks were frankly tired of the whole thing...
Against Softness. Strong and relatively prosperous, Thailand is in no immediate danger. In the event of trouble. Strongman Sarit can call on a 90,000-man army, well-trained and equipped by the U.S. But the Thais, who wanted to send troops to Laos (and actually did beef up the Laotian army with a few volunteers), are angry at what they consider U.S. softness. Officials in Bangkok hinted that Sarit might take the precaution of trading in his pro-Western stand for a more neutralist line...
...strongman did not run officially, but the words "Doctor François Duvalier-President" appeared on every ballot throughout the republic. After it was all over, Haitians learned to their surprise that they had not only elected a new Parliament but-announced Haiti's attorney general-had also voted Duvalier a second six-year term as President...