Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies...
...news came with brutal suddenness. From Korea, Colonel James M. Hanley, chief of the Eighth Army's war crimes section, announced that the Communists in cold blood had slaughtered some 5,500 U.S. prisoners. Up to Nov. 1, 1950, he said, the North Koreans had killed about 3,000 U.S. prisoners. Since the Chinese entered the war, said Hanley, they "have committed most of the Communist atrocity killings." With the air of a man who had detailed records on every case, Hanley declared the Chinese had killed 2,513 U.S. prisoners, ten British, 40 Turkish, and five Belgian...
...says, Willy actually kepi her under lock & key. But why did she not escape by the window? Was it because he always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy's brutal, profiteering tutelage young Colette learned how to write? Explained Colette years later: "Perhaps even a mouse finds time, between one wound and the next, to appreciate the softness...
...illiteracy." It is a fight right here at home, to broaden the American mind, to understand peasant Asia before too late. Eleanor Roosevelt calls this volume "a pictorial concept of the Point Four Program" and its 150 shrewdly, chosen photographs start out on the Point Four theme--the brutal toil and slow starvation of life in China, contrasted with American welfare. The point is clear--that the "billion or more" people of the underdeveloped regions are increasingly susceptible to the misery that comes of knowing they could be better off, if only the right changes could be made...
Boston and Cambridge police have been called in to investigate the brutal assault upon Kenneth King. 25-year-old graduate of the University of California, by two unidentified men. King is now resting at Stillman Infirmary with a broken jaw and head bruises, though he did not suffer a fractured skull as was at first feared...