Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy between the Alps and the Adriatic where once Caesar's armies stood guard, stands an outpost of the new U.S. Army. It is no sword-shield-and-visor legion of Caesar's hour; neither is it the sprawling sea of men and machines that fought the brutal battles of World War II. It is a unique organism, the Southern European Task Force-SETAF-whose job it is to support NATO's ground armies in that area. A tightly packed, well-trained band of about 6,000 men, SETAF comprises the U.S. Army's only operative...
...French reacted with brutal ratissages, in which thousands of Moroccans were savagely beaten with clubs in the search for a handful of terrorists. Moroccans were thrown in jail simply for shouting the Sultan's name. French colons launched counterterror, shooting down Frenchmen suspected of sympathy with Moroccan aspirations...
...them. Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
...ruin, he is a noble ruin, and by sheer force of presence he can command the onlooker to follow into the depths, and to look at things that may teach him a little-known truth about the brotherhood of man. It is not an ideal; it is a brutal fact...
...million, California's William Fife Knowland, Senate minority leader, declared he would continue to oppose any sum until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Poland and free elections are held. From the other side of the aisle, Massachusetts' Democrat John F. Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn down the Polish request. The prospect: either a comparatively modest (up to $40 million) sale of agricultural surpluses for zlotys-or, if the Administration asks for changes in the Battle Act (which bars outright aid to countries trading in war materials with...