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• n  a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus
• n  a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence
  he is determined to bring down the Iraqi strongman

• If Malaysia's Prime Minister does step down as planned, the era of the Asian strongman will end It's My Party.
• President Fulgencio Batista was a worried strongman last week.
• According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren.

News & Articles

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• Obama defends Syria handling to skeptical public, critical congressmen
  Earlier action by the United States to arm rebels seeking Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow would not have meaningfully slow the violence in that country’s ongoing civil war, President Barack Obama said in his first extensive comments about the situation in Syria.Obama defended his administration’s handling of the protracted Syrian civil war following the U.S. government’s ...
  June 18, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Obama defends Syria handling to skeptical public
  Earlier action by the United States to arm rebels seeking Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow would not have meaningfully slow the violence in that country’s ongoing civil war, President Barack Obama said in his first extensive comments about the situation in Syria.
  June 18, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Arizona nonagenarian sets weightlifting world record
  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A barrel-chested 91-year-old strongman from Arizona shattered the world record for the bench press in his dwindling age group, with a lift of 187.2 pounds - some 50 pounds more than the previous record. Sy Perlis bested the record of 135 pounds set in 2005 during a national competition last weekend in Phoenix as the lone participant in the 90-year-old and ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News