Word: bludgeonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Back in hot water with Republicans howling for his head, controversial Stew Udall called in the press, after first carefully stationing at his side venerable Poet Robert Frost, his luncheon guest, as a sort of mute character witness. Udall angrily denied that he had meant to bludgeon money from the oil and gasmen. He admitted that he was a good friend of Evans', an official of Asiatic Petroleum Co., an affiliate of the Royal Dutch Shell group. But, said Udall, all that he had done was to tell Evans casually that he hoped...
...this patchy, fast-paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community...