Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thorniest problem," gloomily concluded the report. "An untenable situation if both men and cattle continue to increase . . . Rational but brutal intervention [i.e., killing the cows] would be liable to cause violent reactions . . . would wound the Africans in their deepest susceptibilities...
...brutal battleground. The temperature dipped as low as 52° below zero. Soldiers clad in nearly 25 Ibs. of special Arctic clothing, carrying another 34 Ibs. of special equipment, crawled through waist-deep snow, over hummocks of frozen muskeg. For hundreds of miles on every side stretched trackless pine forests and mountains. Said one corporal: "Anybody who'd invade this Godforsaken place is just plain damn wacky...