Word: cudgeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resemblance of Things Past. In Tokyo, after beating four women with a cudgel, Plasterer Shigeo Yokoyama, 30, explained that all of them resembled his wife, with whom he had feuded earlier...
...people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals at the U.N. (TIME, Sept. 28). Declared His Grace: "No Christian could possibly have put forward a better plan than this. Mr. Khrushchev could not more effectively have read the New Testament...
...feel that every decent-minded person should take up the cudgel against such infamy. Poking fun at Liberace is one thing, but when it goes to the extreme of criticizing the hallowed tradition of mother's love, it's beyond the pale. It would seem that anyone with the proper regard for the Good Neighbor policy would hesitate to fling insults at the judgment and good taste of millions of people of an allied country, who are devoted and ardent admirers of Liberace...
...take long for Harvard's first scandal to break. The Goffe's at least were not surprised when Eaton was hauled into court for thrashing one of his assistants with a "cudgel. . . big enough to have killed a horse." There may have been raised eyebrows across the street; but next-door neighbors usually know about that sort of thing...
...radiant little family group, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, 70, his wife Kapitolina and statuesque daughter Zinaida, flanked by three bodyguards, stepped off the liner Queen Mary in Manhattan, where Vishinsky will soon take up his cudgel again as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N. At first, Vishinsky claimed that he had no arrival speech prepared. But when newsmen cajoled him, he beamed and shyly drew out a little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international...