Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby that his staff refer to him covertly in the Berlin dialect as "Pfannkuchen uff Beene"-pancake on legs. But inside, as the West is learning to its discomfort, Ernst Wollweber is still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation...
...William Tecumseh Sherman was far from insane. Though he certainly overestimated the forces facing him in Kentucky, he was in many respects the most brilliant commander the Union had, and one of the few who saw the war from its beginning as a brutal, hellish struggle to the death. Sherman's trouble was that his mind was all too subtly balanced, that he was a man of imagination as well...
...count on a sure sense of rhythm and the ability to cut loose with a stunning flurry of punches with both hands. Tommy Bell, the last man to stand between Robinson and the welterweight (147 Ibs.) crown, describes his defeat with the uncompromising clarity of a man speaking from brutal experience: "He come at me with two punches, a left and a right. I didn't know which hit me first. The punches didn't hurt me, but when I started to move, my legs wouldn't go with me, and I fell over on my head...
...enthusiasm for the Korean "volunteer" action. They were trying hard to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. is their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists in Korea...
Categorical Imperative. Vis-à-vis Japan, there were variations of misunderstanding. The Japanese were "polite, industrious little people" until Pearl Harbor, brutal savages until V-J day, have been enthusiasts for democracy since. Warns Maurer: beneath surface "democratization" lurk the fixed feudal habits of centuries. A good Quaker by faith, and no Cassandra, Herrymon Maurer believes the West can retrieve its errors if it recognizes that "other persons . . . must be treated as ends in themselves, not as means to some other...