Word: cudgeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eaton Wields Cudgel...
...Statesman & Nation took up the same cudgel, laid it on with a different intent. It hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far better than Lord Halifax that the French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords...
...which the last war failed to destroy in any but the academic mind, that a "war boom" is the answer to the nation's economic ills. Any man with $100,000,000 in his pocket, earmarked "to be spent for peace only," would have to face that belief, and cudgel it out of existence with fact and argument and slogan. His would be the difficult job of convincing farmers, factory workers, and business men that a war boom is self-destroying false prosperity, that the only sound and lasting prosperity lies in expanding peacetime markets, in business built...