Word: cudgeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's first head, the controversial Master Nathaniel Eaton, flogged disobedient undergraduates, and in 1639 he clobbered a faculty assistant with a "walnut tree cudgel," compared to which the modern billy club would be a toothpick...
Candidates of most parties, however, had done little more than cudgel their brains for spectacular schemes to attract attention. A woman candidate had persuaded one of her pretty girl campaign workers to do a strip for the cause. In a Chiba Prefecture town another candidate had stationed henchmen in all the local firehouses. Whenever an alarm came in, the watchmen tipped off campaign headquarters and the candidate's loudspeaker truck sped off to the scene of the fire to harangue the crowd...