Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Russian finished speaking, a chill silence lay across the conference table. In Molotov's brutal frankness, the Western Ministers recognized a deliberate shattering of the Geneva spirit. In their hearts, the Western Big Three had not expected the Soviet Union to set the East Germans free, but Molotov had gone further than that. By espousing partition, he and the Soviet Union were openly disavowing Bulganin's promise, made at the summit parley, to find ways of uniting Germany and making Europe secure...
Gouge-as-Gouge-Can. The Giant's House is an old-fashioned gouge-as-gouge-can story of business success. An immigrant boy from Ireland, John Horgan has clobbered his way to the top of a chain of supermarkets. Brutal, foulmouthed, yet strangely charming in his roguish, broguish way, he keeps his junior executives underpaid and forever conscious that they must undersell the rival A & P. Horgan's law is that "you never know where bottom is until you probe for it." In one hilariously horrible probing match with Horgan Co., a pudgy little enamelware dealer seems lucky...
...guardian is honest and not a tyrant-a population risks falling into anarchy. But to want to hold out in spite of all opposition, faced with a native elite reasonably capable of taking the reins of authority, the colonial power runs the risk of terrible explosions and surely her brutal eviction...
When the news of this brutal "fry-up" reaches Macduff we have his shocked answer. This is a time when a man can be expected to speak the truth. He says...
Athletic fair play cannot be attributed to this game. All is permitted, and the most brutal "footballer" is considered the most courageous sportsman. The supreme slogan of football is "Brawn over Brain". American generals such as "Pestgeneral Ridgway" and "Korea Interventionist Van Fleet" treasure the "footballer" as the best, most ruthless and compliant soldier. The question never arises for these men as to the tendency or purpose of an order. Its cold-blooded quality alone suffices for them to accomplish what ever is wanted...