Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every college possessing any self-respect possesses a football team and the stars of each team are highly paid. The American universities profit through this practice alone fifty million dollars in one transitory season. These modern gladiators receive on the basis of their brutal loutish swindling, a scholarship plus a bonus which averages fifty dollars for each game. Indeed, on close examination, no other type of player may be seen on the thousands of professional teams participating in this wild, catch-as-catch-can style of game...
...catalogue the cast and the woes of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? further would be meaningless and brutal. It would be dangerous to predict that the play will draw no audiences on Broadway, but it certainly will not be spoiled by success. There is noting to spoil...
...flimsy pretexts for firing federal employees under the present U.S. "security" program, as outlined in TIME, Aug. 29, gave me the blue shudders. TIME is to be commended for exampling the insipid character of the loyalty interviews, and the Fund for the Republic merits congratulations for unearthing the brutal nature of the dismissals...
...believe that Rocky is an honorable man," says Archie. "I figured all along that eventually we would meet . . . Boxing is a profession that is as beautiful as it is brutal. It can be as beautiful as an opera. You can see a man's thoughts, and over those 15 rounds first it's the introduction and eventually it's the climax...
White Terror. The French lashed back desperately. Thousands of Moroccans were jailed, tens of thousands beaten in brutal ratissages (literally, rakings-in) staged by the colonial police. Then the French colons began taking the law into their own hands. Nervous and jittery, like the British settlers in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau war, they organized gangs of counterterrorists among the "poor white" Spaniards and Corsicans who lurk in Morocco's big towns. French terrorists began shooting Moroccans in broad daylight, and the police did nothing to stop it. White terrorists in Morocco also murdered Frenchmen whom...