Word: tyrants
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...pampered tyrant, the American farmer, is about to get his boots licked again by both political parties . . . the Democrats will set up a pious, baritone moan about the wretched plight of American agriculture. They will pass a farm-relief bill, loaded till its axles creak with rigid price supports, loans, 'conservation' payments, and other shabbily disguised subsidies. Then they will pray for the President to veto...
...treat, for example, Viet Nam, a land with an old civilization, and a group of mountain tribes from Laos or Africa, still only partly emerged from primitive savageness, in the same way. By wanting to shake off guardianship too quickly-assuming that this guardian is honest and not a tyrant-a population risks falling into anarchy. But to want to hold out in spite of all opposition, faced with a native elite reasonably capable of taking the reins of authority, the colonial power runs the risk of terrible explosions and surely her brutal eviction...
...dead-and the slaves are suddenly free. Or rather, they have that illusion, for Author Compton-Burnett devotes the rest of Mother & Son to hammering home a vital truth: those who consent to live under tyranny can never be released from it, not even by the death of the tyrant. The bereaved men make desperate proposals of marriage; eager spinsters hurry to accept them; but it is no use. By the last page, everything is just as Miranda would want it: both her men have proved unmarriageable, bound by force of habit and inclination to the dead regime...
...students have written for American support of their efforts to free Cyprus from British control, saying that Cypriots were civilized people when the British were still "swinging from trees." Costa Ricans actually appealed to the office for military aid from U.S. students in repelling an invasion "supported by the tyrant of Nicaragua." Students in this country, too, ask for information about many subjects--a proposed tour by Soviet editors, or the best ways to integrate foreign students on U.S. campuses...
...14th century conspirators surged into the palace bellowing, "Death to the tyrant!" Count Fosca (the tyrant in question) whipped out his sword and skewered the ringleader. Seconds later, Fosca felt "a sharp pain between my ribs," but instead of dropping down dead, he only spitted another brace of gizzards. Three hundred years later, the same Count Fosca "shot myself in the chest and then in the mouth"; 300 years after that, still going strong, he drew a razor across his throat, but "the lips of the gash [drew] together...only a long pink scar remained...