Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Months later he agreed to draft a reply, but it was too late. A Senate commission was investigating reports that the police had been unnecessarily brutal during a June demonstration during which one student was shot dead. When the commission declared last month that the police and the city administration had in effect attempted to conceal a murder, Albertz was lost...
...revolt occurred in Virginia, not in the brutal Deep South. He himself rarely encountered harshness and was the product of an ideal master--he was educated, promised freedom, more or less, and refined in the white man's house...
Defense acquired a brutal glamor in the sport of pro football a decade ago, but Harvard's version over the same years has remained an anonymity. Think of the Crimson defenders and who stands out? There is no Sam Huff riding down the enemy's key runner, no Big Daddy Lipscomb flattening the quarterback, no Erich Barnes crawling inside receivers' shirts. And yet,-over the last 24 games, Harvard has held its opponents to 7.2 points a game, an average that would make Vince Lombardi green with envy...
...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique...
...isolation was brutal. Stalin sur rounded his "little housekeeper" with NKVD agents and made her a prisoner shifted between Kremlin and countryside. The description of her first love affair at 17 becomes an episode in the life of a girl who for the first time since her mother's death feels the pull of approval by another human being. The man was a 40-year-old film director, Alexei Kapler. When Stalin had the whole story-telephone transcriptions, letters, trysts-he ordered Kapler arrested as a British spy, had him sentenced to ten years of exile and prison...