Word: brutalize
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...Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come as a relief...
...cannot see how the stigma of color will be erased unless color does in fact disappear: and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means-let the brutal word come out -miscegenation...
...Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless paydays" became permanently attached to the Governor. The Detroit newspapers, the Luce magazines, etc., did a brutal hatchet job on Williams from which he has never recovered...
...mistakenly support the current fad for blaming Detroit for our personal shortcomings. If cars were death-proof [April 1], if alcohol did not make you drunk, if the police were not brutal, if the Government would take care of me-ah, what a Camelot...
...nothing else, the Christian atheists are waking the churches to the brutal reality that the basic premise of faith?the existence of a personal God, who created the world and sustains it with his love?is now subject to profound attack. "What is in question is God himself," warns German Theologian Heinz Zahrnt, "and the churches are fighting a hard defensive battle, fighting for every inch." "The basic theological problem today," says one thinker who has helped define it, Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "is the reality...