Word: brutality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brutal civil war drags on in Rhodesia, lavish farms and country homes can be snapped up for a fraction of their real value. But while the price of these relics of colonial times has plummeted, Rhodesia has experienced a modest boom in memorabilia, as whites wax nostalgic over their country's past. Coins and stamps commemorating Rhodesia's 1965 unilateral declaration of independence from Britain have skyrocketed in value. A set of three coins minted on the first anniversary of independence, originally worth $17, is now selling for $1,400 in Rhodesia. A one-shilling, threepence stamp bearing...
Salisbury last July, Artist Ivan Day-Jones sold out all his paintings of scenes of the brutal racial warfare that has savaged Rhodesia in the past decade. The boom is so great that a number of rare items have been stolen from Salisbury's Queen Victoria Memorial Library. One current bestseller: The Valiant Years, a collection of newspaper stories and headlines from 1890 to the present...
...races for House seats vacated by Rep. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) and Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.), are different. Lawrence attorney James M. Shannon survived a brutal five-man primary fight in the Fifth District and as the Democratic nominee is an odds-on favorite to succeed Tsongas. His Republican opponent, Middlesex County Sheriff John Buckley, has been running strong, but observers doubt his votes in Boston's northwest suburbs will offset Shannon's expected power in the Democratic stronghold cities of Lowell and Lawrence...
Poverty in the Philippines has fostered the feeling that "the Americans have so much, we should have some too." As a result, Olongapo has the brutal reputation of the most dangerous liberty port in the Pacific. Dependent families are scared to leave the base. The facilities you mentioned are their only recreation...
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau celebrated his 59th birthday last week, with many unhappy returns. In a record-breaking 15 by-elections across the country-"mini-elections" in which nearly 1 million voters were involved-Trudeau's Liberals suffered a brutal whipping. The real target of the voters' wrath, clearly, was Trudeau himself...