Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia's pressure often was brutal; some Soviet delegates were hinting that Moscow might pull out of the U.N. altogether if it did not get its way. Moreover, as a lure, there were in fact two troikas now being proposed: Moscow's original demand for a trifurcate Secretary-General and a so-called "compromise" scheme of three under secretaries (one Communist, one Western, one neutral) to run the U.N. as a directorate. Any practical difference between the two plans could be discerned only by Communist or heavily clouded neutralist eyes. Still another variation of it was heartily plugged...
...conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism that crushed Hungary and swallowed up the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania...
...brutal way, Khrushchev demonstrated a fact of international life: that the neutrals, though they fancy themselves the conscience of mankind, act generally out of naked self-interest. And their self-interest tells them that it is safer to cock a snoot at the U.S. than at Moscow...
...Scharf's exile was an unexpected and brutal blow to German Protestantism, for this determined churchman was the only link between church leaders in West Berlin and 13 million Evangelical Church members under Red dominion. Thus at a stroke this flock was cut off from its shepherd and outlawed as an organization...
...dull routine of stores and stables, at the still, interminable afternoons of stunning sun, at the choking reek of dung and 'dobe and unwashed Indian, at the scrawny, decent, infrequent girls and the better-than-nothing flirtations, at the payday booze and the leering squaws and the sudden brutal free-for-alls that burst like dust devils out of the general boredom...