Word: strongmanism
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...Strongman Perón, who has an ambitious five-year industrialization plan, was avid for the Odlum deal. The government oil monopoly has increased oil output only slowly, while consumption by the thirsty new industries has shot up fast. Imports rose from 10,693,000 bbls. in 1948 to 18,241,000 in the first ten months of 1953, draining off nearly $200 million a year in hard-to-get dollars and sterling. Argentina has enough oil underground for its own needs, but lacks the equipment, skilled workers and capital...
...book on the plane-and-tank war of the future appeared, to be carefully studied by the Germans and to be dismissed as a "collection of witticisms" by the French general staff. Since then, De Gaulle has become a hero, symbol and leader-and, subsequently, a frustrated strongman, waiting for a call that never came. France's millions of logicians doubted even a strongman's ability to cure things...
...people said yes, by a landslide. On the basis of nearly final returns, the Democrats won 508 out of 541 seats. Celal Bayar would undoubtedly be chosen President, and would undoubtedly reappoint his strongman Premier Adnan Menderes, who is a first-class orator, a wily politician, and a millionaire. For the U.S., the result-though it assured a comforting continuity-was less important than the resounding demonstration of Turkish democracy at work...
...recently suffered a nervous breakdown, was in no condition to fight back. In fact, Naguib proclaimed that "we are now stronger than ever and we shall go ahead in a united front." To keep tab on Naguib and to make sure that he does not cause any more trouble. Strongman Nasser announced the creation of a new Cabinet post: Ministry of Presidential Affairs...
...impose on them. This was strongly contested by the Christian members of the House, who maintained that constitutional rights apply equally to all, and that the right to propagate religion has no meaning without the right to convert. Maniben Patel, spinster daughter of the late Congress Party strongman, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, countered with a demand that the government investigate all Christian missionaries, accusing them of being responsible for damage to Hindu temples in Travancore-Cochin and of discriminating against Hindu nurses in Christian hospitals...