Word: roughshod
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...speak up for Cousin Jawaharlal's Pancha Shila-"five principles of coexistence." Then the Communists pushed the well-intentioned to the back of the stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part of China just as Long Island is a part of the U.S.," he said...
...Israel brought forth three great modern Zionist leaders; each had his day and his role. Chaim Weizmann, No. 1, was the gentlemanly persuader, pleading eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action. Then in stepped No. 2, David Ben-Gurion, the roughshod warrior-intel lectual, the visionary with a rifle who physically established Israel. Last week, to succeed the retiring Ben-Gurion as Premier, the Mapai, Israel's biggest party, nominated a man of quite different stripe: Moshe Sharett, 59, Israel's Foreign Minister...
...conservatism was universal in its application. In one of the most famous of all trials, he prosecuted Warren Hastings for colossal graft and misrule as Britain's Governor-General of India. But what Burke, the Anglican, detested most in Hastings' record was the Governor-General's roughshod trampling of Hindu tradition and religious ceremonial. Burke feared that Hastings, by destroying India's tradition, might destroy the soul of a civilization...
...Paris. 18-year-old Kenneth Rosewall, Australia's national tennis champion, ran roughshod over the U.S.'s second-ranking amateur, Vic Seixas, to win the French title, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. In an all-American final, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly defeated Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4, for the women's title...
...office blithely placing teams like Army and Navy on the Eli schedule. It was Hall, who contracted roly-poly Herman Hickman, as Eli coach, and it was Hall who fully endorsed Herman's beating the bush for athletes. One usually does not expect a mere athletic director to run roughshod over the president of a huge university, but Hall seemed to think that Griswold ought to stick to matters of alumni, faculty, and educational policy. There was very little contact between the president's office and the athletic office. And when Hall wasn't busy trying to push Yale back...