Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together with her fellow prisoners, Mary Booth was transferred to a permanent camp established in a nunnery at nearby Liebenau. There she remained for two years. Last week, released in an exchange,* she was in Cairo. Said she: "[The Germans] are a fear-haunted people, of which only the brutal and sadistic achieve pre-eminence and only the stupid have faith...
...Navy could now look upon Pearl Harbor with brutal candor, because it could view some of its aftermath with satisfaction...
...prewar Navy and the principal reason for his commanding the wartime Navy. Few men in peace or war have known "Rey" King well enough to find the warm self behind his hard, hazel eyes. Well does he know that others in the Navy hold him to be a brutal and forthright man, savage in his judgments and merciless in his expression of them, uncompromising and often extreme in his demands upon his subordinates, a man who can be as forbidding in family crises as he is on a bridge or at a Navy desk...
...takes a certain pride in this reputation. Last year, when he saw a suitably brutal account of himself in print (TIME, June 2, 1941), his curses roared through the Navy Building. But officers who knew him smiled at each other. "I think he rather liked it," one of them said...
Publisher Alvin Wiehle of the Washington Herald-Telegram writes with brutal candor. When a recent District of Columbia practice blackout flopped, Publisher Wiehle combed the District's hair with a sneering editorial headline: "A blackout? Nuts! A whiteout!" During the recent scrap drive he pressed his editorial trigger again: "The people must conserve, conserve, conserve, but the Government is free to waste what it pleases. Attached to the wall of the public rest station at Dupont Circle are two iron trellises ... at least 40 lb. of good scrap. Why isn't something done?" He also runs pointed society...