Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angry: "He trembled with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before we met him, thought he was a bandit leader who had pushed himself to the top of his government. That impression was wrong. We knew at once that we were dealing with...
...months the Korean government of Syngman Rhee and its benevolent ally, the U.S., had been in a polite wrangle over currency payments. On top of the brutal ravages of war, South Korea was suffering, as it had since war's beginning, from galloping inflation. As prices kept on rising, the Rhee government demanded some $90 million in repayment for Korean won withdrawn by U.S. military and other agencies for their day-to-day uses. The U.S. recognized the debt, but before it 'paid the money it wanted some assurance that a new flood of dollars would...
...toothed border that runs from the Sea of Galilee southward to the Dead Sea, separating Israel from Jordan, is perhaps the most troubled border in the world. Each day, with brutal monotony, half a dozen people die there...
...message a 75-day "ultimatum." Most of the Secretary's audience appeared willing to take it for what it was meant to be-a helpful reminder of the facts of life in the U.S. "This visit," suggested Germany's Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, "shows [all] nations with brutal clarity that it no longer suffices to pucker one's lips. We now must whistle...
...University student was beaten up in defense of a 14-year old boy who was the victim of a brutal attack in Newton Saturday night...