Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thirty minutes later he emerged glumly. Within the hour. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White told reporters that Herter had expressed the U.S.'s "profound and growing concern" over 1) the highhanded suppression of political opposition by South Korea's 85-year-old President Syngman Rhee, 2) brutal Korean police action against student protest marchers, and 3) other "repressive measures unsuited to a free democracy." In Seoul, Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy made the U.S. point of view unmistakable to President Rhee in a 45-minute interview...
...three years before he was defeated as the Republican presidential candidate, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman London signed a bill restoring capital punishment to the Kansas penal code. Therefore, when Kansas' current Governor, George Docking, recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of a brutal murder, he drew a sharp rap from Alf Landon, now 72. Last week, Docking, only half in jest, snapped: "If Landon likes capital punishment so well, we'll just offer him the job of state executioner at $100 a throw. I'll throw in free cigarettes." Replied Landon icily: "That...
Ikiru (Japanese). A man tries to do good before he dies, succeeds, and brutal ironies follow, in a film that is perhaps the finest achievement of Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa...
...With two stays in Preston already on his record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...
Frenchmen, who delight in intellectualizing sex as much as they do politics, noted that the principal difference between the old-style poule de luxe and the new téléfilles was the elimination of the pimp, who has traditionally dominated Parisian prostitutes and exacted a brutal tribute from their earnings. In the opinion of Judge Marcel Sacotte, who has written a modest but informative monograph on the subject, the call girl is better educated than ordinary prostitutes. Gabrielle had insisted that each of her girls supply proof of her education, discretion and relatively amateur standing, and her list...