abiding
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But they also knew him as a rawhiding commander who knew no friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the evenings he brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke.
From Time Magazine Archive
For Ed Crump, a ruthless, rawhiding, ramrodding political boss, is also a dramatic figure molded in the fighting Tennessee tradition of Andy Jackson, Sam Houston, and Nolichucky Jack Sevier�and thousands of Tennesseans love him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But here are the facts, and he knows it: for four years he's been rawhiding me at every chance with his practical jokes.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson
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