Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, it is the brutal and unrelenting cold-the Big Freeze -that has transformed the inevitable grousing about the weather into personal agony and national hardship. The furies of January have been unrelenting. Alltime low temperatures were recorded last week in Cincinnati (-25), Miami Beach ( + 32), Palm Beach ( + 27). Single-day records for the date were set in New York City (-1); Dayton (-21); and Lynchburg, Va. ( - 8). At -19, Chicago experienced its coldest day in this century. Peoria, Ill. ( - 25), had not been so cold since 1884. In Rice Lake, Wis., the temperature plunged...
...notion must have been for Mikey and Nicky to be two aspects of the same victim, and to make them both prime candidates for a killing. If one is treacherous, the other is brutal. The assassination at the end seems like unfair retribution because only one of them is on the receiving end. Mikey and Nicky should have been a movie about friend ship and betrayal and a kind of cosmic, comic stalemate. Its own helpless indulgence is not just the movie's undoing. It becomes, instead, its subject. Jay Cocks
...overpower the forces of history. The challenge fascinated him and gave diplomacy a new allure for millions. He is only half joking when he says he will be back in 1981, the year another presidential term will begin. Henry Kissinger had his failures, but his imagination-and often brutal, brilliant analysis of problems-established a new realism in American foreign policy...
...history. More than any other modern people we have been free of the curse of ideology, free to combine the nations, free to rise above chauvinism, free to take our clues from the delightful, unexplored, uncongested world around us. We have, for the most part, avoided the brutal homogeneities of the concentration camp and the instant orthodoxies that are revisable at the death of a Mao. During our first two centuries, a raw continent made us flexible and responsive. Our New World remains more raw and more unexplored than we will admit...
Nonetheless Sprague insists, "If we're going to do this at all, we've got to do it right." As a Philadelphia D.A., he won 69 convictions in 70 murder cases. He also sent United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle to the slammer for plotting the brutal murder of his challenger for the union leadership, Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski and Yablonski's wife and daughter...