Word: brutalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center of the disturbance was the Bergougnan rubber factory, where a Communist-fomented sit-in strike had been in progress two weeks. When French police arrived to enforce a court order requiring the strikers to vacate, the strike suddenly became a brutal reconnaissance in force for France's Communists and for Interior Minister Jules Moch's new, mobile Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (security police...
...enthused America, speaking through its Government, can make American democracy an article of export. The Christian concept of the dignity of man is the strongest revolutionary force in the world. But because we lack imagination or understanding, we have allowed the materialistic and brutal verbiage of Communism to gain a greater export currency than our own belief which springs from eternal sources...
...most M.P.s thought the death penalty had little influence on the murder rate. Some recalled that objections like Ede's were raised more than a century ago to oppose the reform of Britain's brutal criminal laws. In George III's reign, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before...
Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
Miss Cornell and her husband shot for the stars when they put this work on their always ambitious schedule. "Antony" has never been a success other than artistically, and the acting and staging problems it presents are brutal. The episodic nature of the action, the impossibility of getting across where or when many of the play's 42 scenes take place, and the sublety of the great character-creations all make the staging of the piece tremendously difficult...