Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condemn the unnecessary, arbitrary, and brutal treatment of Harvard students by the Cambridge Police at the Pogo rally, Thursday night...
...Reds showed at once that they had not only planned the coup carefully in advance but counted on its success. Within minutes of Dodd's abduction, they began displaying large banners: "We captured General Dodd. If our problems are resolved, his security is guaranteed. If there is brutal act or shooting, his life is in danger...
...have had an earlier victory. On the third day of the revolt that left one convict dead, nine wounded, and $2,500,000 worth of prison property smashed and burned (TIME, April 28), prison officials surrendered on all the mutineers' demands (including a liberalized parole system, dismissal of brutal guards, no retaliation for the riot). But the convicts held out for two more days, quibbling over details and assurances, glorying in the publicity and the anxious discomfort of officials-and knifing and roughing four convicts who wanted to call it quits, while 35 homosexual convicts ran wild through...
...Brutal Motion." Prime Minister Churchill (decked out in a new white hearing aid after years of stubbornly defying electronic progress), reluctantly but firmly gave the signal. Out rolled the guillotine, which sets a time limit on debate of each stage of a bill. "We accepted office from his Late Majesty with the firm intention of governing," announced House Leader Harry Crookshank...
Through the night, for 12½ hours, the debate on the guillotine motion went on, with M.P.s catching catnaps in the library. "A brutal motion," cried Labor Strategist Herbert Morrison. "What a reputation the Conservative Party are giving Great Britain abroad," stormed Rebel Aneurin Bevan, "when they say that . . . England can only be held together by making charges on abdominal belts...