ironhanded

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Other ironhanded Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court.

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Censorship remains ironhanded within Poland, although it was lifted at week's end for dispatches by foreign correspondents.

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For, in his usual ironhanded manner, he had run the convention in large measure for the edification of another group of labormen meeting simultaneously in Miami�the executive council of the American Federation of Labor.

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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.

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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