Word: truncheoning
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...Rights Movement can be faintly satirical, especially if it is seen as the reductio ad absurdum of other rights movements. It smacks of a slightly cross-eyed fanaticism that might have amused Dickens, of battle-axes who file class-action suits in behalf of canaries. The movement has its truncheon rhetoric. Its ungainly equivalent of racism and sexism is "speciesism." Just as there is the male chauvinist pig, there presumably must be (so to speak) the human chauvinist...
...conventional bandits rob banks. Today's poachers use radio-equipped lookouts to check for water bailiffs, sophisticated systems of decoy cars to deploy their forces and middlemen to market their take. The object: big catches, swiftly and efficiently distributed. The only weapon the government men have is a truncheon, which, under antiquated rules, can be drawn only in self-defense. The poachers, meanwhile, sport a growing assortment of weapons...
...first it seemed that restraint might prevail. But when 200 students tried to occupy the library at the University of Chile, in the eastern part of Santiago, 50 police attacked with tear gas, brutally clubbing the protesters for nearly two hours. Then truncheon-wielding guards charged into an overflow crowd of dissident lawyers and students gathered to support the workers; about 15 were injured...
Everyone knows that James Bond is invincible. The world's vilest villains-Goldfinger, Dr. No, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Hugo Drax, Rosa Klebb, Scaramanga and the 7-ft. truncheon known only as Jaws-rarely so much as wrinkled the crease in Bond's Savile Row trousers. Next summer, though, the pride of Her Majesty's Secret Service will have some worthy competition: himself. In a schizophrenically satisfying conflict, the 14th and 15th episodes of the most popular series in movie history will be set for a showdown of two big stars. One film, Octopussy, stars Roger Moore, assaying...
Except for the ring of that truncheon thing...