Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Brock (9). In Florida, Lawton Chiles (10) closes with William Cramer (11), toe-deep in the Gulf of Mexico. And across the water in Texas, Lloyd Bentsen (12) raises his shield against George Bush (13). Finally, out on the Coast, John Tunney (14) wields a boxing glove bludgeon against dancing George Murphy...
...Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home...
...raids, and finally, a massive expedition of 50,000 troops crossing the thick layer of ice atop the Finnish Gulf to take back the fortress from the insurrectionists. The rebels blow gigantic holes in the ice, and hundreds of loyalist troops drown in chilling graves. The expedition's survivors bludgeon their way into the city, defended by 15,000 men, and there is fierce hand-to-hand combat raging in the city's homes and streets. Then a silence, and it is over, some of the sailors fleeing across the ice to Finland and the rest on their...
...book's message, while delivered in an unusually shrill tone, will be familiar to veterans of House dining hall conversations. The student radicals, Kelman says, are snotty elitists who trample on the rights of others as they impose their own hyper-moralistic views. Instead of rationally winning converts, they bludgeon opponents into submission. And in the end, they squander all chances of winning mass support by infuriating the rest of the country...
...least, both hands are left free. One can juggle his packages, take notes, doodle graffiti or gesticulate wildly. But if something goes wrong with the call, one can no longer seize the receiver and use it to bludgeon the instrument into oblivion. The hands-free public phone may eventually replace many of the traditional booths in big cities. Though its sturdy, simple construction should frustrate vandalism, it is obviously no cure-all for all of Ma Bell's problems; while checking out the four new phones at Pennsylvania Station recently, a traveler discovered that two were out of order...