Word: swellhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victors were united in revenge, they were divided in how to share the glory. The Directorio Revolucionario, a student group backed by onetime President Carlos Prio, which had its own band of guerrillas in the central Cuban mountains, worried that adulation for Castro might turn him into a swellhead dictator. The Directorio insisted on stockpiling guns for itself. Castro grew furious, ordered the students to turn over the arms. Outgunned, they complied...
...cluttered study. Professor Coy taught and talked history with the air of a reminiscent prospector. Over the years he traveled thousands of miles along pioneer trails, tabulated the names of more than 57,000 old California settlements, came to know as much about Grizzly Gulch, Whiskey Slide, Swellhead Diggings, Loafers' Flat and Lousy Level as any man alive...
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