Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace march on Washington on October 21, while others had lived vicariously through the stories of the beating and tear-gassing of the marchers by the Army's Military Police. The hysteria on campus resulted not just in what the students saw as their own government's brutal response to their protest, but also from what the students experienced, and what they proclaimed in the Harvard CRIMSON as the national press's unfair reporting of the entire incident. The school had taken no notice of the Washington march or its aftermath, but several of the administrators admitted later that...
Honesty is basic, but you can only be honest about what you know about yourself. You cannot equate honesty with brutality. In Hannah Green's book, the doctor was not brutal with the child. She did finally say, "I never promised you a rose garden." But it was only whenthe patient was ready to hear it, and had discovered that the world wasn't going to be a rose garden...
...Came." Romney's chief political booster, Nelson Rockefeller, continued to disavow presidential designs of his own, but for the first time in nearly three years he began to break his silence-just a little bit-on Viet Nam. Having endured a brutal public relations defeat in the New York City garbage dispute when he refused to call out the National Guard to break the sanitation strike, Rockefeller obliquely compared that battle...
...last, the inevitable caught up with Oakland. The scoreboard clock read only three minutes to play when Chicago's Bobby Hull swooped in from left wing and scooped up the puck. Whoosh! he flashed across the Oakland blue line. Wham! he absorbed a brutal check from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better...
...before he ever met Colonel Penkovsky. Part of the training was a routine initiation into the ar cane arts of a courier: how to conceal film, where to hide messages, what to do if the Soviets plant a girl in his hotel room. But one part consisted of a brutal simulation of what Wynne could expect in a Soviet prison if he was captured, and as it happened, he needed...