Word: bludgeon
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...minutes later, at about 5:10 a.m. He found that Valerie had been stabbed six times around her nose and left eye, once in the neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...likes to shock mildly stuffy people, though it's not the Edward Albee bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of the dinner by singing, "I would have let him see me naked," a lament from his dramatization of The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. "This girl's boyfriend goes to a brothel," Kopit happily explained, "and she sings this song describing what she would have done for him. It's got violins...
...gold supply?and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power to do so is a bludgeon and a bother...
...four judges read the same record, the odds are that two of them will conclude exactly the opposite of what the other two conclude. Or so it seems from the endless case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Ohio osteopath who was convicted ten years ago for the bludgeon-murder of his wife...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...