Word: brutalize
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Almost all Americans were diverted by the Cold War. They were deceived by their country's new brand of imperialism; on the long and brutal Indochina War removed the blinders from enough of them to create a significant anti-imperialist movement in this country...
...cultural exchange and its perversion, the abandonment of national culture spurred by Western-style urbanization and elitist education. Ho Chi Minh, for example, was educated in France, but his education broadened his understanding of his own culture. In essays such as "The Glories of French Civilization," Ho recognized the brutal effect French dominance had on his own people...
...have provoked the Soviets to act; nearly all the reforms have been tried in other Eastern European states without Soviet intervention. But, the Czechs showed a dangerous tendency to want to run their own affairs--without regard for Soviet wishes. The Soviets paid a high price for the subsequent brutal repression. They stood exposed before the world as imperialist aggressors. But they paid the price gladly to keep their valuable empire intact. Jan Palach could not forget. The Czech people cannot forget. Those who oppose imperialism should not forget...
More directly, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev had sent Nixon a note that was described as "brutal" by Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and by the President as a message that "left very little to the imagination as to what he intended." The note was kept secret, but TIME has learned that, instead of beginning in the usual diplomatic salutation "Dear Mr. President," it started out with a harsher "Mr. Nixon." It also threatened the "destruction of the state of Israel" by Soviet forces if Israel did not stop violating the cease-fire (see THE WORLD). One member...
...bank robbery that opens the film is staged and executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...