Word: tyrants
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...past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse...
...streets when at 9:30 a.m., a strident new voice on Radio Baghdad began exulting, "This is the voice of the Iraqi revolution!" Accusing "Kassem the dictator" of having "murdered citizens, weakened the army, imprisoned and executed scores of officers," the broadcaster claimed that the rebels "have destroyed the tyrant...
...farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper and his evil bride. The gods approve the murder of the tyrant, but for the act of matricide the Furies fall upon Orestes and drive him into exile...
Jimmy was wrong. They had problems -and so did he. Long gone were the days when he was the music world's national tyrant ("I'm gettin' a repetition for bein' a dictator"). His own musical taste had always been earthy: "Personally, I go for a good brass band." But his secret of success was eminently practical: "Music is good as long as it gives a union...
...quicker in the evenings if I knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant. His stomach has all the gloom of W. C. Fields, all the confidence of Magoo...