Word: bludgeons
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...goodly portion of the nation's lawyers seem to be in considerable anguish over the way the Watergate panel is questioning the witnesses. The letters, calls and telegrams pour in to Committee Chairman Sam Ervin with suggestions for questions, psychological tactics, and denunciations for missing opportunities to bludgeon witnesses to pulp...
...reflected his suspicion (shared, to a lesser degree, in London and Bonn) that Washington's real purpose is considerably less cosmic: to use the threat of a unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces in Europe, and of continued delays in the already overdue reform of the monetary system, to bludgeon the Europeans into making concessions on trade and balance of payments matters. Nixon has stressed that he has no intention of pulling out troops; but he does contend that the Common Market should reduce its tariffs and other barriers to U.S. products...
...IRONY of the situation was not lost on Wagner, who publicly expressed guarded interest in the proposal. Meanwhile, Rose fulfilled his part of the bargain by nominating Wagner on the Liberal line. Rockefeller proceeded to bludgeon the city's five Republican county leaders into acceptance of the deal. But Rockefeller could not dissuade State Senator John Marchi from a second assault on the mayoralty (it was Marchi who defeated Lindsay in the 1969 Republican mayoral primary and then went on to lose the election as he split the right-of-center vote with the Democratic nominee, Comptroller Mario Procaccino...
...writes with a great deal of feeling, often nicely understated. He describes city slickers moving in to make a quick buck or to enjoy the country on weekends at the farmers' expense, and the giant farm supply corporations which generally make farmers' lives miserable. But he doesn't bludgeon you with self-righteousness or drown you in sentiment. He realizes that he doesn't have to; the political facts and personal portraits speak for themselves...
...When Samuel Tito Williams was arrested in 1947 for the bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting...