Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted to cut foreign aid by $350 million, Kennedy had just returned from a trip to Europe. Speaking of what he had seen, he said: "If Europe is to be saved, Europe must commence to make sacrifices . . . commensurate with the danger that threatens to engulf her . . . The plain and brutal fact today is that Europe is not making these sacrifices . . . her military budgets in terms of their proportion of the national income are far below those that we propose for ourselves. Her draft of manpower is less severe than what we suggest should govern us here . . . This effort is clearly...
Stalin was in. He used the 16th Congress (1930) to speed up the First Five-Year Plan, announced at the previous congress. The 17th Congress (1934) gauged the brutal success of enforced collectivization, which cost millions of peasants their lives, and the emergence of Russia (by Stalin's verbal bookkeeping) from "an agrarian country" into "an industrial country...
...Evening Post type chronicles picture their writers as poor, misguided aesthetes who took Marx as their personal savior, and who have learned the hard way that McCarthyism is the only road to the good life. Koestler's self-analysis is of a different sort. It is both penetrating and brutal...
...than Walcott have no trouble hitting Rocky; he stumbles straight against their mitts. The poser is to hurt him. Hit hard, he merely frowns and keeps coming, and swinging, and missing. He windmills like an earnest apprentice, until sooner or later he lands one or two and becomes the brutal master. Then he drubs them. New England has not produced such a punisher since (in Vachel Lindsay's drumbeat lines...
Hartford's more orthodox citizens looked somewhat askance at the perpetual ferment seething in the Hepburn house, and this attitude was sometimes reflected in the brutal behavior of the neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that...