Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretly hoarded supply), and worried about how the Yankees were doing. Through an open window, Ringleader Dickens presented the rioters' demands. "We're not asking for no hotel," he said. But the convicts wanted a full investigation of prison food and the prisoners' complaints of brutal treatment. Fearful for the safety of the hostages, officials decided to wait for hunger and thirst to break the revolt...
Last week in Munich, Painter Dix's stubbornness was rewarded by a big retrospective show in honor of his 60th birthday. While the Nazis and World War II had not stopped his painting, they had radically changed its style. Under "permanent observation" by the Nazis, Dix dropped his brutal social criticism and took to noncommittal expressionist landscapes filled with bright colors and bold patterns. He found life on Lake Constance "idyllic, probably too idyllic...
...Brown's portly father sent him off to Rugby in 1834, when Dr. Arnold was just starting to strip the school of some of its more brutal and debasing traditions. Little Tom found plenty of brutality nonetheless. He faced it straightforwardly, never whimpering, never compromising...
Tokyo sent Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, U.S. Eighth Army Deputy Chief of Staff, and a board of seven officers to investigate the riots. At Panmunjom, Red truce negotiator Colonel Tsai Chengwen sneered, "The massacre fully testifies to the brutal inhumanity with which your side treats our personnel." U.N. officers were convinced that the riots testified to something else: a deliberate Communist attempt to discredit the U.N. demand for voluntary repatriation of prisoners...
...Georges Arnaud, 34, a wartime refugee from France who made his way to Central America, worked as truck driver and gold prospector, and soaked himself in the life of the oil fields. His story marks Arnaud as one of those literary naturals who find their bent the first try. Brutal, violent and good storytelling, The Wages of Fear makes a lot of hard-boiled writers look like children writing for their maiden aunts...