ironhanded
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Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the changes are unlikely to convince the Iraqi masses that the regime has truly turned over a new leaf, especially since the ironhanded Interior Minister, Ali Hassan Majid, has kept his job.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct.
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Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court.
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
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