Word: brutalize
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This bleak doctrine of "writing off life as a brutal absurdity" contrasts unfavorably, Pusey said, with the unwillingness of the Greeks to be overcome by the hideousness of life...
UNITED NATIONS In a set speech straight from the Communist handbook, Soviet Delegate Pavel Shakhov declared in the U.N. that "brutal" British colonizers have methodically oppressed and exploited the "indigenous inhabitants" of Mauritius, the Seychelles and St. Helena. Actually, replied Britain's Cecil Edward King last week, the situation "is even worse than the Soviet delegate realizes...
Miss Milgrim's wild black hair, marvelously petulant mouth and expressive eyes make her Electra visually right. And aside from first-night nervousness and occasional unsureness with her hands, her performance as the sister who is at once compassionate and brutal matches the effectiveness of her looks...
...grown out of the dispute between India and Pakistan over possession of Kashmir. When an M.P. complained that "our unilateral goodness is interpreted as cowardice by Pakistan," Nehru replied emotionally: "I know the people of Pakistan. When you excite them with religious slogans, nobody remains decent. Everybody becomes brutal, whether it is the Hindu or the Moslem...
...reckless disregard for human life and basic freedoms on the part of the officials of Mississippi--unless checked by responsible Federal action--will lead to a racial explosion of terrifying proportions. As the blacks of that state become increasingly aware of their supposed rights, as the state becomes increasingly brutal in its suppression of those rights, and as the Federal Government continues steadfastly to ignore its responsibility to protect those rights, it seems to me in evitable that Mississippi Negroes should take it upon themselves to defend them. Blacks, like other men, hunger for the security and protection...