Word: goons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left Zoltan Pfeiffer, a lawyer evicted from the Smallholders, as the only anti-Communist politician of consequence in Hungary, and the Red goon squads went enthusiastically to work on Pfeiffer's Independence Party. They broke up a meeting at Szentes, 80 miles southeast of Budapest, by throwing eggs, vegetables, yellow paint and bricks. A newsman was deafened, temporarily at least, when struck on the ear by a cantaloupe...
...There, in a brutal "trial," Lewis had booted out of his union a quavering and tragic Phil Murray, until then Lewis' steadfast friend. Now Lewis had no friends around him, only sycophants. He had few friends anywhere, only worshipers or enemies. He had maintained his authority with his goon squads. He was the king. There was no heir apparent; he had let no one rise that far. This was something he might have mused upon, thinking of Padway's "There will always be a U.M.W...
Villain of the tale: Corky, a dark-visaged spirochete 1/3000th of an inch tall, with a corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...
...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
Reuther: It has nothing to do with goon squads. . . .It has everything to do with turning on our economic pressure...