Word: brutalize
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...portrayed as unredeemable goons with a tendency toward sadism and homosexuality. "What is false is the lack of differentiation," complains Helen Vlachos, a former Athens publisher who was placed under house arrest by the junta and later fled the country. "They are all ridiculous in the same way, all brutal in the same...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a cold war of some kind seems to have been virtually unavoidable, s In fact-and this is one of the few advantages of the Bomb's fatal use-it seems to have helped prevent the cold war from turning hot. Without Hiroshima's brutal demonstration of the Bomb's power, might not one or another of the contestants have been tempted to test it during a military action such as Korea? Perhaps on the U.N. forces streaming toward the Yalu, or the Chinese forces massed at that border river...
Mississippi black leaders branded the panel's report a "whitewash." A federal grand jury and a special presidential commission will now continue their separate probes. But the troopers are not worried. During the past five years, 13 lawsuits have charged them with various kinds of brutal overreaction. Five are still pending; in all but one of the others, local judges and juries have never ruled against the patrol...
...Soviet Union's 240 million) and shares 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union. The Finns have been at war with Russia, both under Sweden's suzerainty and on their own, for a total of 90 years. The brutal 1939-43 wars with the Soviets cost the country 10% of its territory and more than...
...Ehrenfried von Holleben was kidnaped, he was ransomed by the release of 40 prisoners, who were flown to asylum in Algeria. One of them, Vera Silvia Araújo Magālhaes, 22, had to be carried from the plane; she said that her legs were paralyzed because of brutal tortures that often concentrated on her genitals. Another, Daniel de Arāo Reis Filho, displayed badly scarred arms. Police left him hanging from a beam, he said, "until there was no skin where my arms were placed across the wood...