Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back in the U.S. with Marina, Oswald once more suffered frustrations. "The relations between Lee and Marina Oswald," says the Warren Commission, "are of great importance in any attempt to understand Oswald's possible motivation." Oswald was a wife-beating tyrant, laid down orders that Marina must not smoke, drink or wear cosmetics. But, says the Commission, "although she denied it in some of her testimony before the Commission, it appears that Marina Oswald also complained that her husband was not able to provide more material things for her." Neighbors also recall that Marina complained to them in his presence...
Since William the Conqueror's day, murder most foul has taken the lives of some half-dozen English kings. But priest and poet always agreed that heaven trembled at such impious acts, for even the most pitiless tyrant ruled by divine right. Oliver Cromwell changed all that. He had King Charles I slain in broad daylight, and explained that God willed it so; he made regicide and revolution fashionable...
...Negro the chance for whatever equality he is capable of, we will stay on top; he will owe us gratitude; where, if his equality is forced on us by law, compulsion from the outside, he will be on top from being the victor, the winner against opposition. And no tyrant is more ruthless than he who was only yesterday the oppressed, the slave...
...name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in linguistic analysis enabled this department to pioneer a mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the filed. He ran the department singlehandedly as a benevolent tyrant from 1926 until his retirement last June...
...GIFTS, by 1. Compton-Burnett. The "god" in this acerbic novel is a memorable domestic tyrant whose crimes are limited to the people closely related...