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Word: brutalizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast probably has something to do with the positions they play. Tackle is a brutal pit position, requiring unfailing consistency and punishing straight-ahead blocking. Guard demands a greater variety of skills, the quickness to pull, trap and range around the field...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...more than 400 student demonstrators forcefully pointed out at the dedication ceremonies, the Kennedy School's decision to name its Public Affairs Library after Charles W. Engelhard -- a notorious financial supporter, and beneficiary, of the brutal gold trade in South Africa -- was a startling affront to all those who had hoped the University was sincere in its oft-stated concern for the oppressed in South Africa. School administrators, in accepting a $1 million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today -- the type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engelhard, Etc. | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...musical identity crisis. The tension between the elements of '50s pop and '70s experimentalism which the group tried to fuse made its second album, Plastic Letters, an unsatisfying anomaly. Harry's too-coy but lovable cover of the oldie "Denise" just didn't sound right next to the empty, brutal "Detroit 442" or "Cautious...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: New Wave's Old Wrinkle | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...brutal game," Harvard backfield captain Peter Hilton said yesterday. "It was the best rugby I've ever seen played on the East coast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Vanquishes Powerhouse Green | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...vintage newsreels. With many members of his generation, the young poet rushed into ideology. He heralded "the birth of a new world" through Marxism, championed the cause of Republican Spain and did his best to see no evil hi the side he supported. If loyalist troops were sometimes brutal, Spender had an answer: "It seems to me that atrocities are a measure of the ignorance and suffering imposed on the isolated people who commit them, and thus they are only a by-product of the monstrous Spanish system which is now being abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking Backward | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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