Word: brutalize
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...Chicago: "The police department is basically concerned with protecting white property, not the safety and well-being of black people." Often the accepted way for a black policeman to get ahead has been to accumulate a record of harsh treatment of his own people; there are countless tales of brutal beatings of black suspects by black cops in dark alleys, paddy wagons and station-house cells...
Stone decried the bellicose attitude of Senator Kennedy and vice-president Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...
...football is thought of as a man's game, but women are not immune to its brutal charms. At a recent game between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions, a sweet young thing was explaining to her father about some charitable enterprise on which her sorority at a local college had embarked. Suddenly, on the field, Bear Linebacker Dick Butkus very nearly decapitated a Lion runner. Out went charity. "Attaway, Dick!" shrieked Sweet Young Thing. "Attababy. Kill the sonofabitch." There is, in short, a bit of the beast in all true football fans...
...beyond his grief. Bond says, in effect: "O.K., God is dead, but we've got to work out an ethic whereby we can survive on this planet with some degree of decency." Unlike Pinter, who seems to accept violence as a norm, Bond indicts the value vacuum and brutal boredom in which men can bring themselves to kill a baby as if it were the only chance to experience the thrill of efficacy...
...hitting it. Bob took a few halfhearted swipes, and unconvincingly remonstrated with his father. Sylvia spoke sharply: "Say you're angry, not just disappointed -say it!" Suddenly Bob was pounding the pillow ferociously, half sobbing: "I'm angry at you, angry because you were so brutal. Why did you have to do it? Why?" Then he was in control again, looking a little sheepish...