Search Details

Word: ironfistedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Mysterious Force. Many of those questions could not be fully and decisively answered because, in the 16th year of the Atomic Age, men were still seeking to penetrate the secrets of a mysterious natural force-as well as the inscrutable designs of an ironfisted dictatorship. But big hunks and hints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Testing | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

The Unveiling. Inaugurator and chief manipulator of Afghanistan's profitable "positive neutrality" is tough, bald Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud, 50. Cousin to Afghanistan's figurehead King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Daoud took over as Prime Minister six years ago, deals with everything from high policy to trivial administrative details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: The High-Wire Man | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

The chain was forged in the turn-of-the-century war of the copper kings, when the company used its newspapers as ironfisted, copperplated propaganda sheets in its successful fight for supremacy. In the '20s, when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Chain of Copper | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Of the four candidates, Jimmy Hoffa got the biggest hand from his fellow Teamsters. But it was Chicago's Haggerty, a "clean" union man and a member of the Chicago board of education, who presented the most clearly detailed platform: greater autonomy for Joint Councils and locals, a bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sparks of Courage | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Soothing Chat. Nehru's first task was to deal with an embarrassing split in the puppet Kashmiri government headed by ironfisted Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed. Seventeen of Kashmir's leading Communist-line politicians last week resigned from Bakshi's National Conference party, making charges of governmental corruption and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KASHMIR: Trouble in the Vale | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next