Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front of a gilt mirror-or as briskly as his rheumatism, poor eyesight and recently broken leg would permit. Lifar, in turn, exhibited his thrusts and parries to newsmen at a local fencing school, where he was practicing. At a chance meeting in a TV studio, brutal words were exchanged. Cried Lifar: "I feel sorry for you; you can hardly see. But I'll make you dance a minuet to my épée." Replied Cuevas: "Your handkerchief was so starched it could almost have drawn blood...
Indonesia last week seemed on the brink of running amok. No one could say which of the nation's characteristics would triumph: that of halus, the ability to adjust passively to circumstances and thereby dominate them, or that of kasar, the blind, rough, uncivilized plunge into brutal action. If the decision rests with anyone, it is with President Sukarno, who, at 56, moves with deceptive lightness through domestic crises and international power plays. His mind and personality are quicksilver; there is a nowhere, now-there quality to his thinking and actions that bewilders his friends and enrages his foes...
...Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots-were unwilling to fight their own people; the brunt fell on British troops and police. Flinging Coke bottles and stones, the mob stormed down narrow Kyrenia Street to the house of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, a physician whose fancy...
Bells of Defiance. Triggering the last brutal round was a crudely mimeographed manifesto calling for a general strike. The strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street corners. Half an hour before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal...
...through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped dump Fernández were pressing...