Word: cudgels
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These virtues, in fact, served man well until the 20th century, until the arrow was transformed into a missile and the cudgel into an atomic warhead. All at once man had more aggression than he dared to use and less control than he needed...
...well that a number of men should be exposed to the ups and downs of life; that they should be compelled to cudgel their brains and fight for their existence as independent producers. That is the factory where the national fibre is made...
...Supreme Court conservatism and self-restraint "lost its most powerful intellectual champion." He added that if one of the two recently appointed justices joins the four-man libertarian group, there will then be the potential for "dramatic reversals" of previous opinions, and for greater willingness "to take up the cudgel against state invasions of rights regarded as federally protected...
Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, who was home campaigning, was instructed to re turn to Washington immediately; Geor gia's Iris Blitch and Pennsylvania's James Byrne were persuaded to get up from sickbeds to be on hand for the key votes. And thus, under the cudgel, the House finally passed the bill by a party-line vote of 219 to 196. It was a victory won by pressure tactics that cannot be used too often without causing resentment...
West Germany's bull-necked Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss (TIME cover, Dec. 19, 1960), who like Brandt is in his 40s and a likely future candidate for Chancellor on the Christian Democratic side, picked up the cudgel. "We certainly have the right to ask," said Strauss in a speech in Bavaria, "what you [Brandt] did outside Germany during those twelve years. Just as we were asked, 'What did you do inside Germany?' We know what we did." Brandt has told his own side of the story before. Violently anti-Nazi and in danger of arrest...