Sadly, as with many good things, doom cryers scurried up from their disgruntled burrows, saw people having a good time, and cudgeled the party. |
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We are being cudgeled into agreeing to wars of aggression, to make first use of nuclear weapons and to put weapons in outer space. |
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But for all of that, the breakthrough wouldn't come, however hard I cudgeled my brains. |
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We also live at a time when alarming numbers of protected animals are being shot in the head, cudgeled to death or worse. |
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Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway. |
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The blasts cudgeled the black ship, smashing it back and forth like a ball tossed between hands as the shields sputtered, flaming and flickering in tortured protest. |
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So, I cudgeled my brains, and also my hair, for one last 2012 thought, and came up with the idea that, as wonderful as our Cartoon Caption Contest is, it wouldn't be complete unless it had a theme song. |
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The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters. |
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