Word: tyrant
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...Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ceremonies; only Chou En-lai of Red China stood closer. Although, in Moscow's view, Gottwald was merely a tried and trusty puppet, to the Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged the last of his visible rivals, Rudolf Slansky, and all known Slansky adherents were eliminated with their leader. Thus, in Moscow last fortnight, Gottwald stood at the apogee of his long...
...tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia's empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over the rest. More terrible than Ivan the Terrible, he enslaved millions in the name of freedom and sent millions to death in the name of improvement of the state. No corner of the world was safe from his ambition or secure from his intrigue. His word was gospel, his will law. He repealed truth and denied God. For millions, he was the infallible...
Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN...
...Translation: "Constancy, tyrant of the heart, we detest as a cruel disease...
Gropius makes it clear that he does not want a complete academic tyrant to run the school. He thinks it needs a positive, artistic man, who has a unique theory, broad enough to encompass his students and faculty, giving them room to satisfy their particular fancies and ideas...