Word: tyrant
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...without government, without law, without ownership of property, in which, corrupt institutions having been swept away, man would be free to be good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures of desperate or deluded men to call attention to the Anarchist idea." As an individualist, she obviously feels a certain sympathy for the anarchist idea-"the last cry of individual man, the last movement among the masses on behalf of individual liberty, the last hope...
Outside the hotel in Buenos Aires, an angry crowd chanted, "Death to the tyrant!" Inside, a handsome, dark-haired woman held court for newsmen. She was Isabel Martínez de Perón, 34, third wife of the ex-dictator who, at 70, lives in Spain and insists that he will one day return to Argentina. How was Juan Domingo Perón? asked a reporter. "In excellent health," she replied. And what was she doing back home? "I have come on a mission of peace," smiled Isabel...
...trend hardly signaled a return to Stalinism, but rather a judicious polishing of besmirched escutcheons. While crediting Stalin with victory in 1945, the Kremlin still rapped the old tyrant's knuckles for the defeats of 1941-42 and for the nation's general unpreparedness for Hitler's assault. Thus the latest issue of the Soviet Academy of Science's monthly journal notes that one reason Hitler was able to surprise Moscow was that Stalin ignored "detailed" reports from Soviet intelligence; moreover, his security police "instead of fighting the real enemies of the state, were used...
...desultory academic background, he is a great backer of education and a regent at the University of California. Most of all, in the business life that has made possible all else that he has done, Simon is alternately a disrupting influence and a force for growth, a boardroom tyrant and a tolerant boss. Says Norman Cousins, editor of the Simon-owned Saturday Review: "There's no petty consistency...
...nearly two years their troops have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...