Word: brutalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come even if it's only for the sake of public appearance. Doesn't she know that I'm about to enter a political campaign? Doesn't she realize what the women of New Jersey will think? They'll think that I'm brutal...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio Somoza keeps his turbulent people in line with the help of a well-paid, wellarmed, brutal National Guard (originally trained by U.S. Marines who occupied the country in 1926). Governing more by corruption than by violence, he gets a financial cut on nearly every profitable enterprise in the country. Loudly "pro-democratic," he stands well with the U.S. Government...
...such a role he would be subordinate to his junior, Omar Nelson Bradley, who is also tough but never brutal. General Bradley served under Georgie Patton in Sicily...
What Chicago Art Institute first-nighters saw was hardly pleasant. Hanging in six main galleries were some 800 brutal black & white engravings depicting assassinations, street accidents, atrocities, nightmares, scandals and conflagrations. Eufemio Martinez Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting...
...Meek is in fact much like a tapestry set against easel pictures. It is not realistic in its drawing; except in a formal sense it is not dramatic or emotional. It gets its effect as a decorative spectacle of strange times and strange places when men were more brutal and unprincipled than they are today, and at the same time more intimately aware of God. As such, it carries its own peculiar kind of conviction, especially in its engaging central figure, whom Author Kossak draws as gay, fey and disconcertingly sincere...