Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the jury was too merciful to all seven were Michael Farmer's parents. Said City Fireman Raymond Farmer: "It's a sign to juvenile delinquents that they can get away with murder-a green light for them to do anything. My wife and I are not brutal. We don't demand an eye for an eye. But I thought possibly Michael's death wouldn't be in vain. Now he's a lost cause, an absolutely wasted life. These marauding savages have made a laughingstock of the law. I can just...
When Rebel Fidel Castro's men called the strike, it turned out to be a classic of disorganization. Batista easily quelled it with units of the crack, 7,000-man National Police alone, and the cops went on to a brutal and exemplary mop-up. The effect was to cripple, perhaps for a long time, the general-strike psychology-the emotional willingness of soft-hooded amateurs to go up against the hardhanded professionals...
Khrushchev started his speech in Russian, then let a translator read on in Hungarian. It was as brutal a speech as the one in which he told Berliners last summer that they would never see their country united on any terms but Moscow's. From a platform set up at the foot of the huge Stalin statue whose destruction by rioters sparked the 1956 uprising, he announced that the democracies of the West must not think of including Eastern Europe on the summit agenda: "No, gentlemen, don't step into anyone else's garden...
...succeeded as does The Leopard in making clear how the black man rationalizes his murderous bent. What is even more remarkable is Author Reid's ability to create a feeling for the land itself, to blend a lyrical, near-poetic portrait of a primitive mind with his brutal subject matter. Unashamedly contrived, his book is quite simply a brief imaginative triumph...
While Robinson was winning back his title with brutal skill for the fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...