Word: brutalize
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...pretty brutal," Lai says. "They took people out and chopped off their heads...
After weeks of writing and rewriting, Bill Clinton was ready in June 1992 to publish Putting People First, a slim volume on his entire foreign and domestic program. After a brutal primary season, Clinton was running third in the polls, behind both George Bush and Ross Perot, and the Democrat's aides hoped the book would help jump-start his campaign. But on June 22, as the plates of Clinton's book were literally going on the presses, Little Rock, Arkansas, headquarters called for a halt. One line in a single chart just didn't make sense. The problem...
...tactics are brutal but effective: He uses women and children as screens for his gunmen, forcing peacekeepers either to sit and be shot or to fire into the crowd. He knows that both dead foreign troops and dead Somalis damage the credibility of the U.N. operation. His presence in Mogadishu ensures continued unrest and violence; he retains significant support in Mogadishu and he knows...
...answer is in their pasts in China, flashbacks that give The Joy Luck Club its epic radiance. The domestic dilemmas in the American scenes are minute compared with the enthralling tragedies laid out amid period splendor: brutal husbands, wicked stepmothers, subjugation and betrayal, lives ruined, babies sacrificed -- and, on the young women's part, a wondrous ferocity of will. The large ensemble (mothers and daughters at two or three ages) is evidence of Hollywood's untapped wealth of Chinese-American actresses. One warning: the typhoon of emotions makes this an eight-handkerchief movie. Bring four for the mothers, four...
...being held in a detention center near the city and in four other towns to the south. Breaking with a long-standing policy of diplomatic silence, the International Committee of the Red Cross has reported severe malnutrition among camp inmates; Muslims have filled out the details with reports of brutal beatings and even torture. The perdition visible in these pictures only begins to reflect the impossibility of putting the heritage of peaceful coexistence back together again in Mostar -- a difficulty reflected sadly throughout the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina...