Word: brutalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lancasters. The first Americans arrived in Britain, and Harris took the air to tell the Germans in their language: "Soon we will be coming over every night, every day - rain, flood or snow - we and the Americans." In that broadcast, he also gave the Germans a historically frank and brutal definition of his policy...
Five Graves to Cairo (Paramount) is a somewhat belated dispatch from the Hollywood militarists on Rommel's North African campaign. Paramount's stand-in for the Nazi Desert Fox is the bald and brutal veteran, Erich von Stroheim. Pitted against his terrorism is the youthful team of Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. United, the wits of these two turn the entire tide of battle...
Italian Blessings. Brutal in conquest, the Italians were energetic imperialists. Their engineers, with sweating soldier-workmen and native labor, blasted, graded, bridged and finally smoothed 4,340 miles of asphalt and macadam highway over Ethiopia's desert areas, muddy lowlands, rolling valleys, deep ravines and high, broad plateaus. Some 10,000 miles of lesser roads were opened...
...military outcry after the German air conquest of Crete; British opinion also demanded a big glider force. Later reports on Crete cooled this enthusiasm so far as the military was concerned; it appeared that Nazi paratroops and transport planes had done the real damage while their gliders had suffered brutal losses (best estimate: 50%). U.S. officers now think the Germans misused their gliders, flying them directly onto British airfields and strong points instead of landing troops near by with room enough to organize an infantry attack...
Perhaps the Japanese had been polite as they went about it-polite with that chill, grinning, hissing formality which is as ill-fitting as the cutaway coats and striped pants of their diplomats. Perhaps they had been brutal, with the special talent they have for torture...