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Control Loser. "The War Production Board in the early days had practically no control over the War Department and the Navy Department, both of which ran roughshod over the entire war production program. . . . Its Chairman [Donald Nelson] found himself beset . . . by an oil czar, a coal czar, a rubber czar, a manpower czar. . . . To correct this situation an Office of War Mobilization was created. . . . This Office failed to act as a directing and managing organization, but served rather as a referee waiting for disputes among various agencies to arise...
Specifically, Orwell would do away with such "dying metaphors" as toe the line, ride roughshod over, play into the hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...
...Bustamante's Industrial Unions and self-styled "Prime Minister of Jamaica," was out to break the rival Trades Union Council, made up of government and public-service workers. Bushy-haired Bustamante had swept Jamaica's first democratic elections in 1944, boasted "I am the government," now ran roughshod over mild Governor Sir John Huggins...
...Army Board. There was nothing mannerly about the Army's report. Roughshod and ungrammatical, it repeated itself like a garrulous, angry man. But there was no doubting its earnestness. Exhaustively it recounted the story of the eleven months which preceded war-a tragic, sometimes ludicrous story of doodling and unawareness...
...Those who would attempt to ride roughshod over the Congress and to dictate the course it should follow before it has even been acquainted with the facts are trifling with the hope of the world...