Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Batista's decision to run for Senator (from Las Villas province) is a hard-headed deal. His name will help the Liberal-Democrat opposition in a doubtful district. For Batista, it is a foot in the Cuban political door. Because most Cubans have forgotten his brutal police methods, remember only that meat & butter were cheaper in his time, Batista is likely to win in a walk without so much as leaving Daytona Beach...
...only did Edward demand of his friend such constant and lavish hospitality that his financial ruin was inevitable, but he made him the butt of more & more brutal practical jokes. Through it all, through ridicule, poverty, and obsolescence, Christopher remained a faithful paladin, faithful unto death, which he incurred through obeying a royal summons when...
...most of these flaws are appropriate to the special Hellinger brands of friendliness, boyishness and sentimentality that pervade the picture. It would be hard to imagine a movie melodrama less cynical, less brutal and cheaply hardboiled, more essentially kindly and sweet-tempered. And it would be hard to beat the setting and handling of the chase which climaxes the film by pulling the hair up on your head and keeping it there...
...right to nurture such a belief. Those who head the Communist Party in Norway today are Comintern Communists. Like their fellow workers in other lands, they are disciples of terror and dictatorship. No longer must well-worded declamations be allowed to prevent people from recognizing this brutal fact, even though for many it might constitute a sinister discovery...
...full, brutal meaning of the brooms became clear only when the new government's Ministry of Social Welfare announced that Czechoslovaks fired by the action committees would be sent to labor in mines, quarries, lumber camps. In two weeks Soviet-style forced labor had come to the "new people's democracy" of Czechoslovakia...