Word: brutalize
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...leave his side, she accompanied the Legion to the unforgiving Western Desert of Libya, where it was to block General Rommel and his Afrika Korps on their advance to Egypt. Here, in a desolate spot called Bir Hakeim, the Legion set about preparing itself for what would prove a brutal battle...
...crimes they have already committed, and not for those they may commit in the future. Of course, we fortunately do not generally employ this logic in our criminal justice system. Criminals must be rehabilitated so that they can operate within society; they should not be incapacitated by a brutal system of retribution...
...nasty fight. In the past decade, the civil war in Colombia has claimed more than 35,000 lives, often in brutal massacres. The war involves four parties: the government, a Marxist movement known as the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), a Cuban-inspired movement known as the ELN (National Liberation Army) and an increasing number of paramilitary right-wingers taking the antiguerrilla fight into their own hands. The only groups that don't often fight each other are the FARC and the ELN. But both the FARC rebels and the paramilitaries derive huge revenues by "taxing" coca production...
...other words, she made it virtually impossible to cheat. Two generations of children passed through my mom?s English classes, heartlessly forced into reading the books and plays they were assigned. It was a brutal battle of attrition: My mom versus Cliffs Notes. Nine times...
...outskirts of Jedwabne, a memorial to the former Jewish residents of the small Polish town who were killed by the Nazis in World War II. But the memorial was a lie. On a July day in 1941, 1,600 Jews were murdered in Jedwabne in a swift, brutal and barbaric pogrom. Some were clubbed to death, others drowned; the head of one young Jewish girl was cut off and kicked. Mothers were beaten to death with their babies in their arms. As darkness fell, 1,500 Jews were forced into a barn, which was then doused with gasoline...