Word: tyrant
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...trip to the U.S., Nadia Boulanger, Paris' matriarch of modern music, became the first woman ever to conduct a full concert by The New York Philharmonic. Borrowing the podium of one of the few notable American composers who was never her pupil, mercurial Maestro Leonard Bernstein, the "tender tyrant" led the orchestra through psalms by her late sister...
...denounced Democratic Secretary of State Dean Rusk for his description, made during a Madrid stopover, of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco as "an ally of the U.S. in the fight against Communist aggression.'' Said the telegram: "That a member of this Administration could praise a Fascist tyrant who has violated every basic precept of freedom and decency is indefensible just as General Franco is indefensible...
...Trujillo clan, still clinging grimly to the Dominican Republic. For five days last week, uncontrolled riots swept the island fief now commanded by the dictator's son and heir. Ramfis Trujillo Jr. Mobs of students swarmed off the university campus in Ciudad Trujillo, smashing statues of the dead tyrant and shouting "Viva la revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts...
...Imprisoned in leg irons by Tyrant Juan Vicente Gómez in 1928, Betancourt faced almost sure torture and death, was only spared because of spontaneous strikes by sympathetic citizens...
...from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with a searing tirade against Nasser, the "tyrant" who "wished evil for the Arab people...