Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is not that facing all this, Cuomo's response was particularly irrational or brutal. But it was conventional, something his language...
...made with orange juice and the greatest reluctance. For weeks, Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia's largest republic, Serbia, had resisted the European Community's attempts to engineer a peaceful future for its neighboring republic, Croatia. Since Croatia declared independence from the Yugoslav federation on June 25, a brutal ethnic war has raged in its eastern region. Croatian security forces are pitted against rebel Serbian residents of the republic who want their homes and fields incorporated into an enlarged Serbia...
...memoirist of the Stalin era, wrote in the early '70s: "Evil has great momentum, but the forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back...
What accounts for the apparent difference in the two men's physical and mental condition? How well hostages cope with captivity depends partly on how long and how roughly they are held. The more brutal the conditions, the more brutalized the body and mind. Tracy and McCarthy suffered much the same deprivations, and were also both beaten and threatened with death. For some of their imprisonment they were chained and blindfolded, and each spent time in harrowing solitary confinement...
...rare occasions when Japanese discuss World War II, they usually speak of their own victimization by the militarists who led the country into battle and by the Americans who bombed their cities. Japan's brutal aggression is ignored. But last week, at a ceremony marking the 46th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the city's mayor, Takashi Hiraoka, for the first time apologized for the pain Japan caused. Noting that the "horror" began with its 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, he said, "Japan inflicted great suffering on the peoples of Asia and the Pacific during its reign of colonial...