Word: roughshod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never fear, Coleman will be right in his element when he takes on control-less Missouri Friday. Tiger Coach number-one, Norm Stewart, threatened to beat up a St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter. Tiger Coach number-two, Rich Daly, allows the players to run roughshod over him--refusing to play, refusing to practice, laughing in his face and disparaging him to the press...
...assuming that this issue is just like those that came before it, you are allowing the administration to run roughshod over student rights...
...flagging campaign during the New Hampshire primary, when he urged the Vice President to emphasize his "no new taxes" pledge. The Governor then served as the campaign's top Dukakis basher, shadowing his Massachusetts counterpart and ridiculing him. Some Bush aides are concerned that the combative Sununu may run roughshod over Washington's more swollen and tender egos. Sununu, however, pledged to work warmly with Congress, purring with a Cheshire smile, "I'm a pussycat...
...would imagine that as the President of the Republican Club, Mr. Rea certainly has a fairly good understanding of politics and could find many contemporary examples of "running roughshod," "personal animosity," and "shouting matches" in politics. While he is also correct in suggesting that such actions, when they actually do occur, are matters for serious concern, I must maintain that such terms simply do not come to mind as I look back upon the calm and dignified actions of Chairperson Mandery last Sunday...
...Mandery's obvious abuse of power. I don't know either Mandery or Beroutsos, nor do I know the true motives behind the incidence, however as a member of the College I know it was we who suffered. I am disgusted and outraged a Mandery's attempts to run roughshod over the Council and question whether he is indeed looking to fairly represent the views of the Harvard student body...