Word: bludgeonings
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...church), some funny, some dull. As usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that requires the priest, the mayor and an old Fascist enemy each to down...
...left that private property is the chief obstacle to human progress and brotherhood, this has in fact been answered by the Soviet Union, which has set up in the name of socialism a more hypocritical and merciless tyranny than any state in history could match, lie for lie, bludgeon for bludgeon. Yet this is a fact which, as Koestler admits, his fellow intellectuals in Europe have still not swallowed...
...Nobody outside the Kremlin can say for sure. But there is every reason to believe her real, ultimate objective remains the same as always-to set up a universal Communist dictatorship run from Moscow. She thinks she can make better progress by concealing her bloodstained bludgeon under a pile of olive branches and trying the more subtle art of poison. By lulling the West she can revert to her early plot to gain control of the world by infiltration, through her fifth columns and similar subversive agents trained in Moscow...
...might have been revolt on the high seas, but it was political revolt against political tyranny on a vessel being run by a political officer with more powers than the captain." He introduced as evidence a persuader found in the political officer's cabin-a spring-handled bludgeon. "It seems a curious form of political argument," said Shawcross dryly...
...Charm. Since Stalin's death, wrote Salisbury, Communist Russia has undergone a complete "new look" as drastic as any change in its whole history. In the face of domestic turmoil the new leaders of Russia have abandoned "Stalin's bludgeon for more graceful tactics." Russia is now ruled not by a single dictator but by a group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch...