Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Saturday night 300,000 regular, National Guard and reserve soldiers wound up the first week of the Army's greatest peacetime maneuvers and went to town to act like brutal soldiery on their night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...United Automobile Workers in convention assembled damned Russia, Germany, Italy and Spain as "brutal dictatorships," for the first time put the great C. I. O. union on record against both Communists and Nazis...
...denounced Franklin Roosevelt for paying more attention to World War II than to internal U. S. affairs. By last fortnight, Mr. Wheeler's evolution was proceeding apace. Said he (to the International League for Peace & Freedom): "I want to do everything to help the Allies stamp out the brutal forces which seek to dominate Europe and perhaps the world...
Vassar's Dean C. Mildred Thompson told graduates that real peace could be attained only if they responded to "decent emotions of righteous anger against brutal aggression and pity for the oppressed and the suffering...
...attempts to probe the psychology that makes fifth columns possible, by tracing the effects of Naziism on a Sudeten mother and three of her sons before & after Munich. It is not badness, but his own discipline and strength, that draws the second son (Alan Curtis) to the disciplined and brutal Nazis. It is not strength, but muddlement that makes the eldest son (Don Ameche), a loyal Czech, kill his Nazi brother. Their mother (Eugenie Leontovich) suffers, but she never quite understands what it is all about...