Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about. Last week's events in Iraq came as one more reminder of just how high the stakes have become. The completion of an interim constitution offered a swatch of hope, even if the signing ceremony fell apart at the last moment. The horrifying death toll in ever more brutal bombings gave a reminder of all that remains to be done. No matter who wins in November, the challenge of fulfilling America's promise in Iraq will be with us for years to come...
...album. Slowing down the pace and varying his intonation gave extra weight to the over-wrought lyrics (“our love is like the border between Greece and Albania”) leading to an epic climax fleshing out the song’s full emotional potential with brutal strength on the line “there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood...
...film, present-day interviews and old news broadcasts are juxtaposed with several punishing sequences depicting brutal violence in Vietnam. Green says he struggled to save these passages from leaving audiences numb...
...this all happened was 99 parts cheap, brutal, and criminal—and one part ironic...
...five full years of Aristide's current presidency. One ski-masked crew, blaring a police siren from a pickup, accosted TIME journalists at gunpoint, shouting "Not even the rats move here without our permission!" Because Haiti's police force is a threadbare farce--and because Aristide dismantled Haiti's brutal military during his first presidency a decade ago--the chimeres are the nation's de facto security force. Mostly poor, seething young men, they are prone to chants like "We will turn their skulls into inkwells...