Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Training was also being improved. 1889 saw the first spring practice. Two years later a crude and brutal machine called the tackling dummy came to Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made team doctor and began a custom of players' retiring from the field between halves for rubdowns and first...
...insistence on quoting Biblical chapter and verse that he thought supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they could find no defense against his blunt, brutal singleness of purpose. "With Hans," said Afrikaners happily, "you know where...
...save over 90% of the population and restore the pre-attack American standard of living in less than ten years," said the subcommittee, "should be sufficient incentive to give civil defense its rightful place in the defense system of the U.S. . . . We are confronted with the grim, brutal reality of the nuclear threat. An ostrichlike policy will not save American lives and property...
Pillows & Salve. Such brutality was plausible. Kierdorf had an arm-long arrest record, once served 27 months for armed robbery. On parole he had been made, at Jimmy Hoffa's insistence, a Teamster official like his ex-convict uncle, Herman Kierdorf (impersonating a federal officer, armed robbery), before him. As business agent of the 5,000-member Local 332, Kierdorf used brutal methods and produced satisfactory results. Once he tried to run over a stubborn employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf...
...final minute on Sept. 23. President-elect Chehab ducked all responsibility: the opposition wildly protested the return of Dr. Charles Malik as Lebanon's U.N. representative, and Dr. Malik wanted Chehab's endorsement before leaving for Manhattan. Chehab, as usual, was cagily silent. As a brutal reminder that the rebel-enforced general strike, so harmful to trade, was supposed to continue, a bomb exploded in a Beirut coffeehouse, killing two innocent bystanders and wounding another. While U.S. marines got their first liberty, 2,000 at a time, in Beirut, a pro-Chamoun leader and two of his aides...