Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brutal fact is that you are more interested in hogs than in people." Not since Robert R. Young had done it himself had anyone talked so harshly about a railroad tycoon...
...Ryan finally got his comeuppance, on the charge that he had accepted $2,500 in gratuities from a trucking company. "The defendant was not a union leader," said Prosecutor Arnold Bauman. "He was a racketeer. The I.L.A. was a racket, which perpetuated itself by a reign of terror, by brutal beatings, in some cases murder...
...outlandish Arab regalia and often embroidered the truth. "Finding they wouldn't believe it," Lawrence himself once wrote a friend, "I told them lies." The ire of Aldington's critics was directed far less at the existence of sordid facts concerning their hero than at the brutal and relentless way Aldington sought to reduce Lawrence's reputation to nothingness. "It is as if someone were to describe Shakespeare's atrocious table manners at the Mermaid tavern, while omitting to mention that he also wrote plays," said Historian Harold Nicolson, who admitted to his own prejudice against...
...book as uncomfortable as it is meant to be, although the anger at times sounds almost old-fashioned in an age when the gallows take far fewer lives than more modern means of destruction. Author Duff will convince all but the most sadistic reader that the gallows are brutal, and that even the basest criminals are too good for hanging. But all he may accomplish is that reformers will propose some more efficient or humanitarian substitutes for the gallows-such as the neat old guillotine, the quick bullet in the back of the neck, or the concentration camp, where prisoners...
Soon they will learn to shoot and kill all over again. Perhaps the army will be "democratic," but it will be an army and will be run by men who served a brutal military tradition. Even now there are frightening sings, like the regrowth of duelling fraternities in the universities...