ironhanded

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With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist controls and fleeting flirtations with capitalism.

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In its early days Maroc-Presse, like its competitors, rarely criticized the ironhanded suppres sion of nationalism by Resident General Alphonse Tuin.

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But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour.

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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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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