Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant Warden and the captain's wife, two people who think they know what they need and almost make life give it to them. And fatally, there is the story of Private Maggio, Prew's friend, who is beaten to death in the "stockade" by Fatso, the brutal captain of the guard, and of Prew's tragic revenge. Dec. 7, 1941, for all its horror, breaks like a pest bomb over this roach pit of human misery...
Patches for Pants. Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka, whom Hitler once called the most degenerate of all European artists, follows no set school, and he is at war with all who do. Most of the time he works with brutal vigor, painting fierce nudes, expressionistic portraits, or turbulent landscapes done with flailing, cutlasslike strokes of his brush and furnace-bright colors. "Nobody else can do these things," he cries, pointing to the tortured convolutions on a nude drawing. "Who would dare? I am a being with antenna. I receive with my senses." But when the mood is right, he can turn...
...Iroquois game of baggataway was a brutal pastime with one main object: to get the braves toughened up for the warpath. Squaws standing on the sidelines with switches whipped any laggards into mauling activity. Nowadays, with a few genteel refinements such as padded gloves and helmets, the Iroquois' old game is known as lacrosse...
...first of ten brutal knockdowns in less than five minutes of fighting. By the time Collins' seconds had climbed into the ring and forced reluctant Referee Tommy Rawson to stop the fight in the fourth round, 24-year-old Boxer Collins was a rubbery-legged, bloody-faced wreck of a man who had to be carried to his corner. Even Announcer Jimmy Powers, speaking for the sponsor, Gillette Safety Razor, murmured that "it was incredible that they...
...because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything we've done to make it a clean, competitive sport they've thrown to the wind. Where were the doctors? Why didn't they stop it quicker...