Word: brutality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...taking painkillers every day, it was brutal,” Suchde said. “My coaches and teammates knew this, so there wasn’t that much pressure. But it’s still hard to accept it when you know [that] if you had won, your team could have gone somewhere else...
...team showed character and great resolve in rebounding and coming together as a group, really allowing us to move forward.” After a pair of overtime wins, the first to the Crimson’s name, were followed by a string of three brutal defeats, it seemed the prospect of another fruitless Ivy season propelled Harvard to a strong finish. In its season finale at Jordan Field against Ivy opponent Columbia, the fate of the Crimson’s season still rested in the outcome against the Lions. With an even record in the Ivy League, Harvard?...
...kang, a traditional brick sleeping platform found in most farmers' homes in this part of northeastern China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place some 40 km from the family's two-room farmhouse in the windswept hills outside the town of Chengde. Zhu, who sold vegetables in a nearby market, had gotten into a fight the previous day with other vendors while jostling for a prime spot; he was beaten...
...unusually brutal spring in Iraq. With at least 220 dead, April and May combined for the bloodiest two-month stretch for U.S. forces since the war began. The spike in casualties is the result of the troop "surge," chiefly into hostile parts of Baghdad, a move opposed by a number of senior generals before it was announced last winter. Now President George W. Bush is under mounting pressure from members of his party to prove the effectiveness of the surge by summer's end or risk having his allies turn on the policy. The fear, G.O.P. officials privately admit...
...clear to anyone listening to the Mount Everest radio traffic that Rob Hall had decided to die. For Hall, there seemed to be little drama in the decision--but for someone in his position, there rarely is. In the brutal cold and almost oxygen-free air found at Everest altitudes, a sort of woozy resignation sets in. Decisions to climb or descend, rest or trudge on, get made with a fatalistic shrug. At the moment, Hall was shrugging toward death...