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Word: brutality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Cambridge's often out-spoken Catholic community, some outside the Curley house yesterday suggested the death penalty as the only adequate punishment for such a brutal murder...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Child Abused and Murdered | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

These three cops are the backbone of "L.A. Confidential." Their jobs demand that they be mired in filth and degradation, and they have not escaped untarnished. White sees violence against women and turns to a brutal brand of justice. Vincennes busts celebrity drug users and comes to seek the spotlight himself. Exley is enamored with the established system and is seduced by the power that it wields. All three men have been infected by the underworld in which they must exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cops On the Screen and Off | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

Instead of defense or a big play offense, the real weapon exhibited by the '97 Crimson thus far has been a brutal steamroller of a running game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life Goes On Even After Eion | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...softness of temperament. Don't be fooled: he knows what he wants. "I like to communicate in a civilized way, if my English can accommodate it," says Lee, who came to the U.S. for college in 1978 and has lived here ever since. "Sometimes my English is a little brutal. But that's all right. I get understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: LEFT OUT IN THE COLD | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...will take a lot of Big Kings to knock McDonald's off its perch atop the brutal burger market; it had $32 billion in 1996 sales to No. 2 Burger King's $9 billion. The Big King's true test comes this week, when the 99[cents] deal is expected to end. (The company is mum on the regular price, but a manager in Atlanta predicts $1.99, slightly cheaper than the Big Mac.) By then, the novelty may have worn off. "It tastes good," said Don Newland, sampling one last week in Los Angeles, "but when you come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURGER KING: MAC ATTACK | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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