Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is now little doubt that the Cambodian government is one of the most brutal, backward and xenophobic regimes in the world. Cambodians themselves refer to the Khmer Rouge simply as "the Organization." Refugees who have managed to flee to Thailand -often after days and weeks of walking through thick forests and jungles along the border-describe the revolution as a chilling form of mindless terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers...
TENSIONS OVER FORCED BUSING already have turned Boston into a hotbed of racial hatred, but they found their ugliest form of expression last week in a brutal beating of Theodore C. Landsmark...
...eclipsed by French Superstar Jean-Claude Killy; in the final race that year, Sabich split several vertebrae in a brutal fall at Aspen. The next season he suffered a knee injury that plagued him throughout 1975-when he failed to earn a cent on the pro circuit. This year he had earned only...
With Kissinger running foreign relations, it was Haig who tried to hold domestic policies together whenever proposals requiring decisions came up from the various departments. By then Nixon was totally preoccupied with Watergate. Haig is portrayed as performing heroically, maintaining brutal hours and an outward front of confidence about Nixon's surviving in office. Privately, he startled one White House aide by confiding: "He's as guilty as hell." Haig's personal opinion of Nixon was that he was "an inherently weak man who lacked guts." But to Haig, the good of the nation required that...
...photographs are to be believed, this is how Hollywood seems to have been in the 1930s. There are moments-tough and outlandish-where we are temptingly close to the spirit of Fields as it has come down to us through his movies. They are sudden, brutal incidents of misanthropy (and misogyny) expressed in bitter humor that startles with the ring of truth...