Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed, the infliction of such psychological punishment is more reprehensible than a physical attack: it leaves no discernible marks on the victim. Because it is thus concealed, it has, under the brutal-itarian regimes, become the favorite weapon of the secret police, bent on procuring confessions as a means of convicting the innocent...
...enforcement" of the Geneva treaty* as if they expect that the Communists will inevitably get the whole country in the all-Viet Nam elections of 1956 somewhat unspecifically provided for at Geneva. The Communists have dropped their anti-French propaganda ; instead the Communists are now vilifying Diem for "the brutal eviction of France," and for not obeying "his superior...
Both One Man in His Time and My Nine Lives in the Red Army are brutal autobiographies of ex-Communists which make few of the usual apologies for their authors' past. N. M. Borodin, who went over to the British when he finally found himself in a tight spot in 1948, was a Cossack scientist. Mikhail Soloviev, who in World War II became a leader of the resistance fighting both the Germans and the Communists in White Russia, started out as a nimble-footed military journalist skilled in all the slippery tricks of Mos cow intrigue. Their stories, nightmarish...
...Jerusalem last week, the U.N.'s Israel-Egypt Mixed Armistice Commission condemned Egypt for the recent "brutal and murderous attack" (with grenades and Sten guns) on an Israeli wedding party on Israeli territory, in which one woman was killed and 22 persons wounded...
After a few stray kiss-and-cuddle sessions with boys her own age, she meets 32-year-old Ned Skelton ("He's a man's man-brrr! Poona and all that"). Ned is brutal; she takes it for masculinity. He hates her friends; she takes that for judgment. They have ugly little quarrels; she takes them for tiffs of true love. To Christine, marriage is a kind of exclusive club for grownups, and she is willing to pay any fee to join. With Ned, the fees come high, for he turns out to be a slack-spined, hapless...