Word: tyrant
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...into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer a perfect target for a good rousing Revolution later on. Last week...
...Senate! Senate! Where is the Senate? ... The Senate sits here and is being emasculated. You sit here with this political tyrant and generalissimo dyed with the stains of corruption. . . . You sit here and let this character pull off of us everything that means that we are a United States Senate. I do not mind being made ignominious, but I hate to be made ignominious by a man of that type...
...have destroyed the promise of '48, Louis, not only in France, but the world over; and you have destroyed a great deal more than that. . . . You are liberal-minded, and will destroy liberalism; for, as a professedly liberal emperor, smiling and amiable, you will establish yourself as a tyrant, in order to keep yourself firmly seated in the saddle. . . . You, a man who hates bloodshed, will sow the seeds of bloodshed. . . . You are not a man to be envied . . . for your good fortune is not a sun or a fire, but only a miner's lamp...
...since the days of tyrant George III has British Royalty summered at Weymouth. There last week met the paunchy delegates of organized British labor, the Trades Union Congress. Eight years ago their Council frightened the Empire by declaring a general strike, in many respects the most alarming and seditious event in the reign of George V (TIME, May 10. 1926). Last week the T. U. C. met in chastened mood...
...That pamphlet made our Vladimir," his admirers in Sarajevo solemnly declare. "It fired the heart of every brave man amongst us against the tyrant Franz Josef and his heir...