Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilfered Ears. Ukrainian Party Secretary Nikolai Podgorny, member of the ruling Presidium, was next. When he asserted that his region's harvest was "almost on the previous year's level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with...
...schoolteacher-was justified by the results. Fully 75% of French voters said yes to De Gaulle, and he carried every single department in France. Jacques Soustelle, his most important and gifted antagonist, campaigned fiercely in Lyon, where he was elected Deputy in 1958, and lost. "Let us recognize the brutal fact," said Soustelle when the results were in. "Algeria must interpret the vote as a gesture of abandonment...
South Africa's brutal policy of apartheid, carried out by Christians in the name of Christianity, has long been a challenge to the Christian conscience. Afrikaners traditionally see themselves as the Children of Israel in a Promised Land where God put the black man to serve Him by serving the whites, hewing wood and drawing water. For generations the Dutch Reformed Church has wrapped segregation in a mantle of scriptural self-righteousness ("If God had wanted the races to mix, he would have said so in the Bible"). President Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd is a regular churchgoer who, like most...
...August 1948, a wiry young man with kinky hair, cupped ears and an amiable smile came back to the U.S. after spending a year as a G.I. bill student at the Sorbonne, and found that he had become the overnight lion of American letters. Norman Mailer's brutal, scatological novel of war on a Pacific island, The Naked and the Dead, was in its eleventh week as the nation's top bestseller, and the critical ovation was still going on. A few reviewers detected the strong influence of Melville and Dos Passos in Mailer's massive novel...
...aybe Later. Anderson ignored these counterproposals. After three days the meeting broke up with a communique implicitly conceding that the parties had been unable to reach any agreement. A clutch of critics promptly raised the cry that Anderson's "brutal" methods had foredoomed his mission to failure. Under Secretary of State Dillon was reportedly miffed, not at the purpose of the mission, but at its ultimatum-style presentation...