Word: tyrant
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...those who threaten us take only a tyrant's lesson from differences among free men and mistake the temper of our people, they can plunge the world into war . . . [But] the issues which might divide our people are far transcended by the things which unite them. If threatened danger becomes war, the aggressor would find at one' stroke arrayed against him the united energies, the united resources, and the united devotion of all the American people...
Plot & Prison. Abdul Hamid was a devious, scheming tyrant who hated Reformer Midhat, chiefly because the latter had written a constitution for Turkey. The new Sultan reappointed Midhat as Grand Vizier and set an army of spies to watch him. Soon he had cooked up enough phony charges to banish Midhat and all his followers. Responding to diplomatic pressure, Abdul Hamid restored Midhat to imperial grace. In 1879, however, he had Midhat arrested for the "scissor-murder" of Abdul Aziz...
...eight-month-old South African lion cub named Chaka (after the early 19th Century Zulu tyrant) was put aboard a plane in Johannesburg, headed for Moscow as a gift from the Russian consulate to Joseph Stalin...
...thought to be. Father is not just a stupid, henpecked husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...
Magnani, who suffered bruises, again defied his former comrades: "They have noticed that we are no longer escorted by police, but we are not afraid. We will hit back." Bleeding Cucchi said: "I expected this to happen one day or another . . . the Communist party . . . behaving like an oriental tyrant...