ironhanded
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Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas.
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
Old Nelson's fiercest expletive was "my goodness gracious," but he was so ironhanded in his domination of the Senate that "Aldrichism" became a term of opprobrium.
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
