Word: brutalize
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...have one thing in common: they are fleeing their parents. At San Francisco's Huckleberry House, which counsels under-18 runaways, Steve Lieberman, co-director of Youth Advocates, the center's sponsoring agency, says: "Most runaways leave home for a legitimate reason." Some typical reasons: beatings by brutal parents, arguments over the use of drugs, lack of freedom, and sometimes anger on the part of girls toward sexual advances by their fathers or stepfathers. Furthermore, says Lieberman, "About two-thirds of the kids come from homes where the marriage of their natural parents is not intact...
This is a young man's novel-theme and scheme far too massive but stubbornly hefted anyway. The author follows the disintegration of a small Indian tribe, the Washo, who lived by hunting rabbits near Lake Tahoe. His central vision has brutal force: that the very first sight any Washo had of white men was in midwinter, high in the Donner Pass, at the moment when surviving members of a party of settlers began to eat their own dead...
Angered by the brutal scene, several residents ran onto the soccer field separating the buildings from the Wall. Some started tearing out concrete slabs with their bare hands. Others joined them, and soon some 300 men, women and children were at the Wall, screaming their frustration and anger at the hated Grepos. A hole six feet wide was ripped out of the barrier, and several young men prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts...
...antidote to the sensationalism and misrepresentation they were receiving at the hands of the press. While maintaining a reporter's role, he rode with the motorcycle gang, getting full exposure to the broken home life, intense love of fast choppers, wild orgies and drunken brawls, even suffering a brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture was a full and objective portrayal of the life style that Thompson compiled in "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs...
...larger than the Montevideo fire department, were beefed up in the late '60s to cope with the daring raids of the Tupamaro guerrillas. Not long after Bordaberry, a conservative rancher, became President last year, he called in the army to wipe out the terrorists, which it did with brutal effectiveness...