Word: roughshod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project was too ambitious or too devious for the Queen. She rode roughshod over her Hohenzollern husband's natural inclinations and brought Rumania into the Allied side of the World War. She later marched into the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 and marched out with a treaty which doubled Rumania's size at the expense of Russia and Hungary...
...ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...
...cramped, dim-lit House Rules committee-room on the third floor of the Capitol. The nine smug gentlemen, key bloc of the conservative coalition now dominating the House, could afford to be gracious to hard-plugging Mary Norton, Labor committee chairlady, because they had just finished trampling roughshod over...
...Congress in appropriating for the relief of the underprivileged never intended that those funds should be utilized to slaughter a member of this body. . . . Has the Congress builded a Frankenstein over which it has no control?* Is this a robot which is to trample roughshod over its creators, just because one of the cogs or buttons that animate it does not like the color of a Senator's hair...
...newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing yes-man, can be put at the mercy of Government officials, of any party at any time, if those officials are callous enough or daring enough to ride roughshod over even the most elementary constitutional rights of citizens and their honest enterprises...