Word: tinpot
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...bleached airport, Bush was greeted with the Gulf's signature mix of garish oil wealth and tinpot amateurism. A large retinue of royalty watched as a band played an off-key version of the U.S. national anthem. Bush walked through the cavernous air terminal to his motorcade and drove to the monarch's "farm" at al Janadriyah. Through the enormous gates and along alleys of dying shrubs and trees fed by miles of futile drip hoses, he made his way to the King's "villa," a marble-clad, poured concrete palace. Through a foyer with a statue of a cheetah...
Laborites scathingly declared that Britain had been humiliated by a "tinpot dictator" and a "two-bit Mussolini." Critics blamed the government for misjudging Argentine intentions and for failing to keep a British naval squadron "over the horizon" from the Falklands during times of tension, to discourage adventurism in Buenos Aires...
...little to offer in the way of a platform. The rise of suicide bombers, and a flour, gas and electricity shortage that is reaching crisis proportions feature in all her speeches, but she gives no concrete solutions other than the ouster of Musharraf, whom she refers to as a "tinpot dictator" and other unflattering epithets that are unpublishable in Pakistan because of the government's media crackdown...
...More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...
...shuttered, the Age of Clinton has come to an end, and the time has come again to decide what kind of nation we will be. Will we be the America that our enemies—the bin Ladens and Iranian mullahs, the fascist despots of Beijing and the tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will we be the America of our own fondest dreams...