Word: torquemada
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...Goaded by the Dominican Torquemada, the King and Queen reluctantly signed an order for the expulsion of the Jews in the same year that their armies reduced Granada, the last stronghold of the Spanish Moors, and their protégé, Christopher Columbus, made his long voyage west. The beaten Moslems were permitted to remain in Spain-for a time-at the cost of paying their taxes to Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews were given a harsher option: join the church or get out. Writes Jesuit Historian James Brodrick: "The majority honorably and bravely chose exile...
...gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort to justify its past mistakes consumed its energies. In this year-long waste of time, Senator Joe McCarthy, the poor man's Torquemada, played Tar Baby...
...would like to nominate U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy as TIME'S Man of the Year for his unmitigated gall in applying the Torquemada technique and for alienating thousands of voters from the Republican Party...
Father Benitez was not taking back a word. "Can you imagine in these days such fanatical, Torquemada-like intolerance?" he asked. Last week he announced that he would open forums at which university students would be free to debate philosophy and politics. That, he said, would represent one step farther away from the hidebound teaching methods of the universities of Mother Spain...
...Forget." At that point, Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, strode into the room. He was (in the words of Historian Francis Hackett) "lean, ascetic, ominous, with black fires in his hollow eyes, reminding one of certain Spanish landscapes that look like the suburbs of hell." Holding out a crucifix, Torquemada said: "Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver: Your Highness is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is; take Him and sell Him." He left the crucifix on a table and withdrew; shaken, the King declared that the edict would stand...