Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America has need of friends abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
...cruel coincidence, nature has dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
...help? ... He knew he was sick, I gave him the name of an analyst, and he went." Another chap who still has an idée fixe about him, complained Brando, is Playwright Tennessee Williams, who cannot seem to accept the fact that Marlon is not at all like brutal Stanley Kowalski, the slobbish lecher played by Brando on both Broadway and the screen in Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando's claim: a clear case of mistaken identity. Mumbled Marlon to Truman: "Tennessee has made a fixed association between me and Kolwalski. I mean...
Police chief John H. Smith described the beating as "the most horrible thing I can remember in all my years of police work. It must have taken a pretty brutal type to do such a thing, but I've always thought that those football players would get mighty vicious by the end of the season...
...middle way. Like most of her counterparts in other Moslem nations, she preaches and practices evolution, not revolution. In a recent, speech Aisha said: "To emancipate herself, woman must first of all know herself well. Her evolution, however rapid one might want it to be, must not be a brutal surgical operation, a rupture with the past. The emancipation of woman must be done by her consent, not by her submission." Aiming for that middle way, Aisha and her co-feminists are pushing adult education. "We fear the development of conflict between mother and daughter if the daughter faces West...