Word: brutalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin saw almost immediately that Hitler was a threat. He began a program of house-cleaning and defense building so drastic and brutal that he earned the hatred of most of the world. Even so, the preparations could not go fast enough to keep pace with the meteoric Hitler. So in 1939 Joseph Stalin, falling back on his peasant cunning, decided to make friends with Hitler in order to postpone the conflict until he was ready for it. By his pact with Germany, Stalin started the war which he knew was bound to engulf him eventually...
...Russians were ready. They let the attackers blow themselves up on some of the tightest mine fields ever planted. The Russians used land mines, complained a German reporter, "in quantities surpassing those used in any other war or campaign and in a manner that can be envisaged only by brutal minds, long trained to insidious methods of warfare." The Germans, despite their long training in techniques more or less insidious, were shocked into retreat...
...French Somaliland was near the end of its tether. Last week Vichy, pleading for U.S. food for Djibouti, tried desperately to enlist U.S. sympathy for the victims of the brutal British. The British had their own tale of brutality. Djibouti's Vichyfrench authorities, they said, were driving natives out of the colony and into the encircling British lines at guns' point, shooting them if they tried to return...
Plaintiff Hayes had a brutal tale to tell. In June Defendant McCaughey and three others snatched him from his home, trussed him up with wire, hustled him to an empty County Louth farmhouse. There they accused him of squealing I.R.A. secrets to the Government. When he denied this they blindfolded him, bound him to a chair, bashed his face and head with fists and a revolver barrel. Finally Sean McCaughey threatened that if he did not confess in 15 minutes he would be shot. Thereupon Stephen Hayes invented imaginary incidents, was removed to Dublin...
...charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told...