Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death of a General. Two years before that, Aléman had opened a scrubby little law office in Mexico City, and death had come to his father. The old General had broken with Strongman Obregon and turned guerrilla. For two years he held out in the jungle, until betrayed. Then, surrounded by government troops, he fought with his handful of men until ammunition ran out. With the last bullet he killed himself. In Mexico City. Miguel put his father's picture above his desk. It has been there ever since...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
...took over Paraguay in 1940, he has used Benítez Vera's, fascist-minded military clique for a whipping boy: it was to blame for Morínigo's failure to set up some semblance of a democracy. Finally, Benítez Vera had played the strongman act with so much authority that he had been given the boot. Now what...
...party's strongman is a onetime oilfield mechanic, stocky Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka (party name "Wies-law"), 41, who says: "We are carrying out a revolution. ... In the interests of democracy, order and also expediency, we must accommodate open vocal opposition. It will be much more dangerous if we suppress...
...motives of the unpopular military Government were obvious to all: by declaring war and meeting the other requirements laid down at the Mexico City Conference, the regime might snuggle again in the bosom of hemisphere harmony. Thus relieved of pressure from abroad, it might hold phony elections (even "elect" Strongman Perón to the Presidency), stay in power indefinitely...