ironhanded
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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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He governed his charges like an ironhanded country squire, his severity being tempered on occasion by notable Mrs. O, herself the mother of two Pomfret boys.
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Others called the ironhanded regime of the Resident General, Old Soldier Augustin Guillaume, a "police state," and even saw a prospect of civil war.
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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
