Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unabashed Turkophile, I was delighted to see your illustrated article on the treasures of the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul [June 23]. However, your reflections on the Turks as brutal conquerors are somewhat onesided. The damage wrought in Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 was, in the light of those times, very slight. Contrast this with the incredible rape, vandalism and slaughter that accompanied the Christian armies of the Fourth Crusade when they sacked Constantinople in 1204. Suleiman I, as well as many others of his dynasty, looks like an angel when compared with many of his "civilized" Christian contemporaries...
...five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told them that they weren't even close." The San Francisco Giants, hoping to harvest a homegrown product, sent out three scouts last year...
...Well-Fed Rats. Hoxha revealed that Moscow had tried brutal tactics to force Albania back into line. Last year Albania suffered a near famine. "We had only 15 days' supply of wheat. After a delay of 45 days, the Soviet Union promised us 10,000 tons instead of 50,000 tons-15 days' supply of wheat to be delivered in September and October!" This, declared Hoxha bitterly, was "unbearable pressure. The Soviet rats were able to eat while the Albanian people were dying of hunger...
...family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities are brutal floggings, slaves who maul and kill one another while their masters bet on them, the daughter-in-law's horsewhipping her pregnant rival to death, and the planter's murdering first his son and then the boy's Mandingo mistress...
...than they wanted. For in Alabama, mobs were permitted to run free and wild by top state and local officials who, from Alabama's Governor John Patterson on down, abdicated their duties of maintaining law and order. The result by week's end was a brutal, bloody outbreak of violence that brought on the gravest federal-state conflict since Little Rock...