Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kampuchea offers a more extreme example. The anti-Vietnamese (hence anti- Soviet) resistance there includes the Khmer Rouge forces of Pol Pot, the deposed tyrant of that benighted country. He might be a pawn on the international chessboard; but, having presided over the murder of as many as 2 million of his own countrymen, he can hardly be called a freedom fighter...
...Edwardian households, the British nanny has been the "veddy" last word in child care for privileged families. Now she is getting some colonial competition. Prompted by a demand for long-term quality care by the growing ranks of dual- career couples, an Americanized version of the legendary domestic tyrant is blossoming in affluent suburbs across the country...
...have told ourselves that this is what copyright is about for so long that we almost believe it. When the author makes demands about the purity of his creation, he is often cast as a petty tyrant; an artist who has allowed his limited property right to go to his head and is now oppressing performing artists selflessly serving the public and the Muses...
...always one of the world's greatest leaders. We saw her as a shy and much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader...
...Myrta, Queen of the willis, Marie-Christine Mouis is a powerful, ruthless tyrant. She has at her command the entire corps de ballet, a force whose threat stems from their anonymity. The willis are terrifying in their immobility, their lack of individuality and their lack of pity. The corps does admirably with the almost impossible task of moving as one. They transform a group of 16 women into a single deathly, supernatural unit...