ironhanded
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Porfirio D�az, the great dictator who imposed ironhanded stability on the country in the last century, once bitterly said: "Poor Mexico: so far from God, so near the U.S."
From Time Magazine Archive
He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys.
From Time Magazine Archive
With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist controls and fleeting flirtations with capitalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of suggesting the ironhanded vulgarian of a millionaire, whose god is business, De Feraudy reminds one of Mr. Jiggs in the comic supplement series, Bringing Up Father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Right ceases to reign, force asserts itself, and Bismarck, ironhanded, invincible, holds sway over a scared, unresisting, one may say a soulless world.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 by Various
