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Word: brutality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's confidential assessments of other men in talks with trusted aides were tough, candid, and often brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Intimate Glimpse of a Private President | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...notes that it is laid out "like a film scenario," and tosses it aside with the assurance that the author "must be an American." Bates is also able to supply some shading that the writing lacks. His face, as the film ends, begins to show the first traces of brutal emptiness and panic, as if he had been subjected to the kind of beating that leaves no scars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Touch of Class | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody for the rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Threnody for the Rebels | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...started, Norton was sprawled across that canvas in a daze. Nonviolent George Foreman dispatched Norton just as he had Joe Frazier and 38 other opponents -with brute force. Stalking Norton like a boxing Frankenstein, Foreman tossed aside his opponent's punches as though they were irrelevant and delivered brutal blows to his body and head. Early in the second round he landed one below Norton's heart. "I heard him grunt," said Foreman later, "and I knew I had him." He finished the challenger with a volley of uppercuts and right-left combinations to the head. As Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five-Minute Massacre | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...other series, between Chicago and Detroit will be very close. "That's going to be a fun series to watch; it ought to be fairly physical too," Sanders said. "Brutal" would be a better word to describe it. In a nationally-televised game between the Bulls and the Bucks two weeks ago, three fights broke out between the heated players...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: NBA Playoffs to Start Today; Satch Picks Celts as Champs | 3/29/1974 | See Source »

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