Word: roughshod
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Captain Gordy Halstead will lead a veteran team onto the field tomorrow which has been improving with every game. Pete Zouck, Doug Anderson, Dave Gilbert, Jess Willard, and George Hanford have led this year's ten all during the season. They have run roughshod over several weak opponents but have yet to play their best game when necessary...
Captain Gay Dillingham helped celebrate W. Cameron Forbes' recent gift of polo equipment to the team by driving home 20 goals as the Crimson ran roughshod over the Cornell malletmen 31 to 1. Until the last period the Red riders were unable to get within scoring distance, as Major Sargent's men won as they pleased...
...Judge Landis hates the farm system. His office mail is packed with squawks about it from players. Two years ago he freed 100 players from the St. Louis Cardinals' farms. Last year he got wind of irregularities in the Detroit Tigers' farm lands. Last week the roughshod way Judge Landis rode over Detroit's farm system was the talk of baseball...
...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...