Word: highhandedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neil Addington, 32, a Marine Corps machine gunner in World War II, promptly trained his sights on the National Guard and, by a well-aimed series of disclosures in the New Mexican, blew up a statewide scandal involving the highhanded misuse of thousands of dollars in state funds, compounded by...
Four Ways. Of all the European nations that gathered in Berlin in 1884 to divvy up the then still largely unknown and unexplored heart of Africa, the four principal powers now remaining have each pursued a different, and often faltering, path to the inevitable future. Pragmatic Britain, whose colonies range...
Manageable Mediocrity. Stout first ran into trouble when he decided that the university should abolish entrance requirements for Nevada high-school graduates. He also did away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also...
To analyze a single missile test, R-W must check over an entire planeload of complex data that would ordinarily take years to digest. By using a $500,000 computer that it built specially for the job, R-W boils down the information in a matter of hours, can tell...
It takes a brave man to oppose highhanded, old (81) Syngman Rhee, who has won every presidential election since South Korea became a republic in 1948. As the leader who fought the Japanese for half a century and held his country together against the Communists, Rhee is the only man...