Word: bludgeon
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...disagreed with this view, arguing that the United States probably would not exploit a decisive nuclear edge in the future, just as it failed to use its nuclear monopoly after World War II to bludgeon, the Russians into an advantageous general settlement. On the other hand, he felt that the Russians might use a decisive advance they made in nuclear weaponry to threaten the United States...
...minority for the time being. On the other hand, even those who are temporarily in the majority cannot avoid their own ultimate bankruptcy. They may . . . bluster noisily, but their majority is only a fictitious, superficial phenomenon. We will never submit to the dictates of any anti-Marxist-Leninist bludgeon. Unreasonable abuse is entirely useless; curses have not done us the least harm...
Denying all these accusations. Weesner last week insisted that the real purpose of the suit was to "bludgeon" Bon Ami (which showed a $300,000 profit for the first half of this year) into a merger with Tel-A-Sign (which lost $455,000 in the past fiscal year). Bitterly Weesner charged that Pat Webb had taken advantage of her position as his secretary to steal company records, and was now indulging in "distortion of those records, double-dealing, broken agreements." As for the cottage-priced bird cage, Weesner snapped: "Sure I have this macaw. This bird and I take...
...still languishing in Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee, and Mills has no intention of letting it go to the floor. But Kennedy, still smarting under his narrow squeak in the election, thought he saw in medicare a red-hot political issue with which to bludgeon his opponents and win votes for Democratic candidates in November. Though the American Medical Association far overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders' health. He bluntly said that he would get his way no matter what Congress...
Torrent or Ordeal. French critics took Journey to task for its faithfulness to the stage version, complaining that the film was a "slavishly unimaginative transposition of theater to screen." To foreigners, the torrential flow of talk, which O'Neill uses to bludgeon home his message, seemed merely an ordeal. Lumet replied: "I believe there is room for literature on the screen." But the format seemed to have inspired Journey's stars. Last week's Cannes Festival jury awarded a collective top-acting prize to Journey's four stars-though they had to share their honors with...