Word: bludgeonings
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...they came back and picked up Dr. Hulme's daughter Juliet on the same charge. Near the blood-soaked ground where Pauline's mother had lain, police found a brick and near it a bloodstained stocking in which the brick had been inserted and swung like a bludgeon...
Unquestionably, the New York "Daily Worker" produced the most rhetorical news. "America's leading fascist employed everything except the jackboot, bayonet, and bludgeon . . .," began its lead paragraph...
...almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant was closed for the sixth day as both sides argued whether Gear Fitter Fulmer had been gambling or not. Said the union: "The company is using the Fulmer case in in an effort to bludgeon the union and its members into an ineffective apparatus." Said Westinghouse: the company had to stand firm on "a principle you've got to live with forever...
...four witnesses refused to say whether or not he had ever been a Communist, but each had quite a bit to say about the investigation itself. In a prepared statement, full of sound & fury, Oscar H. Shaftel, of the Queens English department, called it an "inquisition ... a bludgeon against academic freedom . . . I am sick." said he, "of teachers huddling ... in fear, hoping maybe a McCarran, a McCarthy or a Velde committee may overlook the bad thing they once said about fascism, or the time they chose to teach The Grapes of Wrath in class...
...Quatriëme Zouaves was interrupted by the rumble of trucks filled with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs dropped. The rest dispersed to carry on the fight from rooftops and doorways. French...