Word: bludgeonings
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...damnation, [the church] cannot admit what people call liberty of thought . . ." Gide, bred in a tradition of Huguenot Protestantism, could never accept this view. In one of his rare offensives, he wrote Claudel that he could not abide those Catholics who "use the crucifix as if it were a bludgeon...
...with a few paragraphs of interpretation. The tone is not so unfriendly to MacArthur as some of his other critical have been, but the authors have nearly undercut any claims the general may make to consistency, and have beaten down many of his most pronounced opinions with the bludgeon of hindsight...
...such implication of the Court's decision is that it may encourage many national, state, and local legislators to conjure up subversive control of bills of their own such as the Maryland Ober Law and its pending Massachusetts imitation. Another is that administrators may use it to bludgeon criticism and unpopular beliefs into silence, thus resurrecting the witch-hunt of the '20's complete with its smear and arbitrary methods. And yet another implication is that this act and its effects may become permanent even after the present tide of pressure, passion, and fear has receded...
...strange ally: the Department of Justice agreed. Nevertheless, the Federal Court of Appeals upheld FTC. Ruled Appellate Judge Sherman Minton (who has since become a Supreme Court justice): the deciding fact was not good faith, but the fact that "Standard had given a club to their retailers to bludgeon their competitors...
...possible that the main Chinese objective was not in Korea at all, but on the political front at Lake Success. Instead of a bludgeon to knock the U.N. troops off the peninsula, the Chinese force in Korea might be a blackmail attempt to win U.N. recognition for Communist China...