Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began the final chapter in the three-decades-long history of the Khmer Rouge, one of the century's most brutal, self-destructive regimes. More than a million people died during the rule of the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Since then tens of thousands more have been killed and maimed by the guerrilla war and the country's treacherous minefields...
Most journalists like to think they'd go through anything to win a Pulitzer. It's doubtful how many would want to experience this: A brutal flood that ravages their newspaper, their printing plant and most of their homes. A fire that destroys their offices and archives. Every last material possession burned to the ground or washed away...
...young man named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet), lives in emotional country bordered on one side by Kafka, on the other by Dickens, or, if you insist on being literal, in dank, gloomy Rotterdam in the 1920s. He is the product of a one-night liaison between a chilly, brutal man named Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir) and his stony housekeeper (Betty Schuurman), sex that one suspects was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for both of them. He keeps asking her to marry him, she keeps refusing him, and he takes his frustration...
...that encouraged individual initiative while protecting people against cartels and the colder faces of capitalism. His cousin Franklin confronted capit alism's greatest challenge, the Great Depression, by following these principles. Half a world away, Lenin laid the groundwork for a command economy, and his successor, Stalin, showed how brutal it could be. They ended up on the ash heap of history. Although capitalism will continue to face challenges, internally and externally, it is now the economic structure for most societies around the world...
...kingdom collapsed after 12 years in a war that remains the most atrocious, the most brutal and the deadliest in history. But which, by the same token, allowed several large figures to emerge. Their names have become legendary: Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Montgomery, Zhukov, Patton...