Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like their God-King, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans left their homes to escape brutal Red Chinese repression after the failure of the 1959 revolt. They were brought to Switzerland by ten Swiss calling themselves Friends of Tibet, and including members of a 1953 Himalayan mountain-climbing expedition, Asia scholars, authors and businessmen. The intense, quiet-mannered Tibetan moppets instantly charmed the Swiss with their small, deft hands and disarming smiles. The adults are faring equally well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes...
Granite-faced Bear Bryant (he earned the nickname wrestling a bear at the age of eleven) reports for work each day promptly at 5:30 a.m., sometimes spends the night sacked out in his spacious office in the Alabama gym. On the practice field he is a relentless, brutal taskmaster who orders players, managers, trainers and coaches alike through every drill on the dead run. Off field or on, he lives, eats and breathes football with an angry fervor that few rival coaches can pretend to understand. At 7 one morning, so a Bryant legend goes, Bear picked...
...Committee on Algeria. Rejecting Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically, he tried to tone down its blistering language...
...creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...
...South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist, killed by an Alton mob, and he knew what he thought about slavery: "It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy, it has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated in itself...