Word: brutalize
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Prisoners, who are shut in cells for 23 1/2 hours a day, are protesting arbitrary and brutal treatment by guards, including rectal searches--often accompanied by assaults--whenever they enter or leave their cells. They are also objecting to strip searches of visiting family members and other "humilitation techniques," and withholding food as punishment, Jacoby said...
...continuing violence. There are a few who feel the electoral decision should have gone the other way. Some have turned dissident and are carrying out brutal acts. But there are not many. It will take time for them to adjust, but they are adjusting. What is important is that most of our people simply do not want another...
...worse with a painter like Georg Scholz. Scholz's Industrialized Farmers, 1920, is all rant and bile directed against the country folk whose profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means...
...overwhelming as mourning and as painful as its sorrow. "You weren't wrong; I was to discover this after your death," the narrator incants as she traces the life of her lover, a Greek freedom fighter. In painstaking detail, she relates to him what she has learned since his brutal death--what was coincidence, what was inevitable. Part survivor, part vindicator, the narrator mentions herself infrequently and addresses the reader just once. This is no one's story but her lover's, a story so great, teaching a lesson so timeless, that Oriana Fallaci uses classical Greek tragedy...
...hemorrhaging economy. Instead, Karmal and Brezhnev signed a wide-ranging treaty of military cooperation. Said Karmal, with utter slavishness: "Were it not for the Soviet Union, there would be no Afghanistan on the political map of our planet, and all mankind would have been suppressed by the brutal barbarity of fascism and imperialism...