Word: brutalize
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...effects of home environment. Back in the boondocks of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Brooklyn it is considered impolite to sneer at mommy's handiwork. We who hail from these parts of the frontier learned early on that we would do well to emulate her. Let us face the brutal truth together, we are not all the daughters of math PhDs, senators, professional historians, and queens...
Counting the brutal dictatorships in Cuba and Haiti and the more or less benevolent ones in Paraguay and Nicaragua, 13 of the Hemisphere's 20 nations have been ruled by military force at one time or another since the Alianza was born...
From the Clutches. Of course, the contest between moderates and Goldwaterites for control of the party machinery could well become a brutal fight before it is resolved. The National Committee's leadership, notably Chairman Dean Burch, was hand-picked by Goldwater. The moderates badly need to take over the committee as a power base, will probably pressure Burch to quit soon after the first of the year. Some state organizations, too, must be wrested from the clutches of Goldwater men. And in Congress, symbols of the right wing like House Minority Leader Charles Halleck of Indiana and Minority Whip...
...ordinary four-letter words are for the little children, while grownups employ a more esoteric vocabulary where drag means transvestite clothing, silks are women's underpants worn by men, a John is a male prostitute's male customer, and rough-trade is that same prostitute's brutal boy friend...
...think of their politics as urbane and fairminded. In large measure, they are. But at times the heirs of Cromwell and Pitt are apt to be more virulent than the heirs of Jackson and Truman. British political leaders can deftly cut each other's throats with the most brutal verbal slashes, and British political crowds can raise the fine democratic art of heckling to riotous dimensions. This happened once again in the windup of Britain's election campaign, suggesting that beneath the initially apathetic contest there was really a good deal of passion...