Word: bludgeoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted to bequeath some mark of concrete and marble, some monument to belie his own colossal incomprehension and inability to deal with the complexity of American life. And so he employed the resident artistic hacks to bludgeon the reluctant marble into the unlikely shapes that grace the Mall...
Cambridge police have not found a suspect in the bludgeon murder of 50-year-old widow Mrs. Ada C. Bean last Thursday...
...suggests registering the genitals of all American males, since there are so many rapes in the U.S.) Still, nothing else can translate a fleeting murderous impulse into action more efficiently or finally than a gun. There is no need for contact, none of the effort required to stab or bludgeon a human being...
...increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...
...clear that the conditions prevailing in Indonesia at that time were not right for such a venture. As could have been predicted, the Communists were massacred by Muslims. This grisly failure shows that men and their ideas simply cannot bludgeon an intractable reality into any desirable shape...