Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also mother Butler's habit to extract confidences from Sam and then pass them on to her formidable husband. If the canon disliked what he heard, and he usually did, Sam got a thrashing. He grew up with the unshakable convictions that 1) all male authority is brutal and despicable, and 2) all female love is a form of blackmail...
...Hogue, minister of the Westwood Hills Congregational Church, announced that he is going after the Democratic nomination for Jackson's seat. Said Candidate Hogue: "I am ... dedicated to the American tradition of freedom of religion. I feel very strongly that Mr. Jackson has endangered that freedom in his brutal attacks on Bishop Oxnam and the Methodist Church...
Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble...
...main, Rojas has kept that promise : he stopped the four-year war between the brutal policemen-followers of his fanatically Conservative predecessor, Lau-reano Gomez, and the Gomez-hating Liberal guerrillas. Although a Conservative himself, Rojas fired the cops, earning their hatred, and amnestied the Liberals, earning their gratitude. The new peacebreakers are mostly Laureanista ex-cops, far gone in the habit of murder and bitter toward Rojas and the Liberals...
...Lamarr to the Casbah in a film called Algiers. Since then the suave Frenchman has become permanently associated with the exotic atmosphere of Algiers' native quarter. Algiers, however, was only a mellowed version of the French production Pepe le Moko, and Boyer only a romantic substitute for a more brutal Pepe, played by Jean Gabin...