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  • When Porfirio Diaz, Strong Man of Mexico, appointed himself president, he reversed most of Juarez's short-lived policies and made sure that the land was returned to the Catholic Church and to the wealthy hacienda owners.

    Mexico: Sex Slaves (Part I) 2010

  • When Porfirio Diaz, Strong Man of Mexico, appointed himself president, he reversed most of Juarez's short-lived policies and made sure that the land was returned to the Catholic Church and to the wealthy hacienda owners.

    Printing: Mexico: Sex Slaves (Part I) 2010

  • Not coincidentally, the local Strong Man is rich, relative to his suppliers.

    Romancing the Afghan Dragon 2009

  • Mr. Rosen said Strong Man will be the first major biography of John Mitchell, the late U.S. attorney general, who played a pivotal role in the “rise, reign and ruin” of Richard Nixon.

    Watergate Revisionism: Fox Journalist Expiates John Mitchell 2008

  • Mr. Rosen said Strong Man will be the first major biography of John Mitchell, the late U.S. attorney general, who played a pivotal role in the “rise, reign and ruin” of Richard Nixon.

    Watergate Revisionism: Fox Journalist Expiates John Mitchell 2008

  • Schwarzenegger is running for Strong Man, not governor of a democratic republic.

    Philocrites: Schwarzenegger for enlightened despot? 2003

  • I had a momentary vision of myself as the Strong Man, the strong, quiet man with the iron grip on his emotions.

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • The tumult and the shouting died, the smoke cleared, and Lloyd George stood revealed as England's Strong Man, a sort of Atlas upholding the

    The War After the War Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • The Strong Man, too, produced a universal feeling of mingled astonishment and horror, when he laid his head and feet on a couple of separate stools, and then allowed some sturdy smiths to place a stithy on the unsupported part of his body, and hammer a horse-shoe till it was completely made by means of it.

    Chapter IV. Book II 1917

  • "Ah, Clairette," moaned the Strong Man, pitifully, "it was all through you!"

    A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901

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