Word: brickbatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest brickbat any high official of the U.S. had yet thrown at Adolf Hitler then left the hands of cool, calm Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, who purposely chose that gathering as audience for his brick-heaving. Said he, answering rumors that the Nazis may soon campaign for a negotiated peace: "There can come no peace until the Hitlerite Government of Germany has been finally and utterly destroyed...
...torn by an effort to make politics pure continued last week to ignore a resolution by New Hampshire's stubborn Charles W. Tobey. Mr. Tobey wanted the Senate to deplore the Census Bureau's income and personal questions. Flying in Mr. Tobey's direction came a brickbat from Franklin Roosevelt, a concession from Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins. Snapped Mr. Roosevelt, touchy last week with a cold: "For the first time . . . a U. S. Senator has openly advised the American people to violate the law." Mr. Hopkins, still ill and away from his desk for the eighth month...