Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own. Next morning, they tacked up a proclamation: "On January 5 ... the entire peace-loving and patriotic population of Berlin will say farewell to that exemplary fighter of the People's Police, Helmut Just. He was murdered by agents of Mayor Reuter . . . another of the sneaky and brutal provocations on the part of American warmongers...
...marched to Thailand and assigned to the work gang building a Bangkok-to-Rangoon railroad. "Down there is much malaria-tomorrow you will be dead," said his guards mockingly. Countless Britishers and an estimated 130,000 Malay natives learned that the Japs were telling close to the brutal truth. Every crosstie under 400 miles of track was paid for with a human life, though, thanks to R.A.F. bombers, no train ever completed a trip. Author Braddon shriveled to 81 Ibs., collapsed with fever, and had to buy water from a fellow Aussie who made him sign I.O.U.s that finally totaled...
...picked up a Negro hitchhiker named Silas Rogers, and got him to confess that he had stolen the car in Raleigh, N.C., shot the cop. The court would not allow Rogers' confession to be used at his trial; there was clear evidence he had confessed only after a brutal third degree. But when the two soldiers identified Rogers as the Negro who had picked them up in the stolen car, he was convicted, sentenced to death...
...Capp is ever realty brutal with the benighted staff members of LIME magazine, it will be at least partly because of his own experiences as a TIME cover subject (Nov. 6, 1950). "For years I felt very badly that TIME had been doing covers of Joe DiMaggio, Churchill, Eisenhower, but not me. A couple of years ago, I was in Sardi's and [Columnist] Leonard Lyons stopped by my table. He said: 'You ought to be on the cover of TIME.' I agreed that he was inspired. So he dragged me right over to [TIME Senior Editor...
March to the East. Brutal as any contrast of geography or industry is the cultural chasm between Bolivia's Indians and the whites and mestizos of the cities. The Indians, the vast majority of Bolivia's 3,200,000 inhabitants, live quite outside the national economy, even speaking Aymara or Quechua instead of Spanish. At home on the high, forbidding plateau since before the time of the Incas, they have developed oversize lungs to be able to live and work, dance madly and play reed pipes, get drunk and breed children in the cold, thin air. Their wants...