Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piney woods of East Texas, deer hunting is a way of life. The natives, hard, stern men, pursue deer after their own local, brutal fashion, behind powerful, lop-eared hounds. "Five, ten miles ain't no area for a big deer to carry the dogs," drawls R. C. Pace, former sheriff of Jasper County. "Once I had one run twelve hours. You can go a long way in twelve hours...
...unfashionable to fight the Reds too hard, Premier Mario Scelba. his Cabinet and the pro-government press passed over the U.S. action in silence. Industrialists (some of whom, for protection's sake, have hired Communists as personnel directors) were silent too. But not the discomfited Reds. "Brutal interference . . . hateful measure . . . incitement to Fascism!" cried the Communists...
...playful paradoxes in which Wilde turned the world upside down have since become realities. Seeing Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, demolish morality in the flick of an opium-scented cigarette, one is unavoidably reminded that, in the 20th century, whole philosophies have been based on brutal versions of elegant sophistries such as his, and whole armies on the philosophies, and whole empires on the armies...
...amazing it is, Mr. President," Dirksen continued, "that when a man lies in pain in a hospital, to send him a message at once so cynical and so brutal. Where are the common charities, after all, Mr. President? How bad must be the evil acids eating at the soul if finally they stir in such a way our passions and our tempers . . . Mr. President, there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator...
...Viet Minh presided over the jungles, but could not storm the towns. The political war was also a standoff: the French brought back Bao Dai, an ex-puppet of the Japanese, to reinspire Vietnamese nationalism on their behalf-but they got nowhere; the Viet Minh lost friends by their brutal emphasis upon forced labor, and by further purges of their nationalist element. But for the Indo-Chinese people, the war was an unrelenting horror: at war's end a staggering 2,000,000 Indo-Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when...