Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on Frank White's daring report [Aug. 23] from Morocco. It reminds me of the brutal French ratissage which characterized their rule in Syria...
That the French colonial contraption is weak I never doubted, but now I have also seen how brutal and cowardly it is. For an action such as you described in "Running the Gauntlet" to be perpetrated by a civilized people seems incredible. After this revelation I firmly side with the Arab patriots, and hope that they will soon send the French packing back to their homeland...
...interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question of the brutal treatment and forcible indoctrination of British prisoners taken in Korea. But perhaps their most interesting quest would be to seek out their own opposite numbers in China-the leaders of the "democratic parties," which are still allowed a tenuous existence owing to their propaganda value-and, without asking such foolish...
...gone on a rampage in the medina (native quarter) the week before. They killed seven Europeans, including a woman and her daughter, whose stomachs they slit open with knives. The women's bodies were dragged through the streets of the medina. The French last week retaliated with a brutal show of force known as ratissage, literally a "raking-in." TIME Correspondent Frank White, an eyewitness, cabled this description...
...Monzón next day won pledges of loyalty to the junta from all except officers commanding one military base near the airfield. Castillo Armas also had an even stronger ally. For the first time, public opinion spoke out, revealing unexpectedly heavy support for Castillo Armas. Outraged by the brutal treatment of the Liberation forces, huge crowds marched to the palace to shout: "Down with the army! Death to the treacherous cadets!" University students went on strike. Market women milled about the military academy, shaking their fists at the cadets...