Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acorns, bark on trees is extra thick. Onions are sporting thick skins, and everyone knows: "Onion skins very tough, winter's going to be very rough." Both the Almanac and the woolly bears, by the way, were right on in their predictions that last winter would be a brutal...
...conversation with President Carter was brutal. The President accused Israel of putting obstacles in the way of reaching a peace treaty. He warned, if you do not reach an agreement with us, you will remain isolated throughout the world. My response was, I prefer a split in relations between Israel and the U.S. rather than a Palestinian state. I was not too polite in my response to the President...
...James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundations for Journalism, was not mincing words. "With this nationwide, brutal suppression of dissent," he said Wednesday, "the illegitimate Pretoria regime moves far toward terminating its last cosmetic pretence to democracy--namely, a free press...
While the White House dawdled, the forces attacking Carter's energy plan and supporting deregulation mobilized skillfully. The pressure was unrelenting but not brutal. "There was no arm twisting," said North Dakota Democrat Quentin Burdick, a particularly vulnerable target because he was one of the fence sitters (he eventually voted for deregulation). "It was very gentlemanly...
...Biko case must not serve simply as a short-lived cathartic outlet for anger and moral outrage. Rather, it should be seen as just the latest and most visible reminder of the larger pattern of ongoing government repression in South Africa--a pattern that has grown increasingly pervasive and brutal since the outbreak of anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa's segregated black townships two summers...