Word: bludgeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once the band had completed its song, nothing but silence emanated from the Harvard rooting section. For the first time in memory, Crimson hockey fans didn't bludgeon the opposing goalie with cries of "sieve, sieve, sieve...
...Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there would be no more arms sales...
What better locale for high-speed writing on the symbol-strewn walls of modern culture than in a cheese shop in Paris? Calvino enters wielding pen like bludgeon or scalpel, a bull in a cheese shop, breaking all the codes. He leaves the Reader with a picture of Mr. Palomar, balancing notebook on knee, pen on paper, scribbling down names, sizes, colors, mold formations, as if his frantic doodling could create another map of the stars, a gastronomy of everyday life. Mr. Palomar does take on a persona, and at the same time becomes a recognizable character, when he sonic...
...callous insensitivity to the efforts of congressional leaders" who had been trying to work out a compromise. John Shattuck, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, voiced a suspicion common among civil rights activists. Said he: "The President's action was really an effort to bludgeon the Civil Rights Commission out of existence" by making compromise on a reauthorization bill impossible...
...pursuers, a wildcat crook with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude but out of a strict fear...