Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the average citizen, Senator Lodge had been taking comfort in the belief that the U.S., with the world's greatest production facilities and a strategic air arm able to pepper Russia with atomic bombs, possessed a forbidding deterrent to Soviet attack. "The cold brutal fact," he had found to his dismay, "is that the U.S. does not have air supremacy, air superiority or anything like it ... On balance, air superiority as well as land superiority lies with the Soviet Union...
Montserrat, which enjoyed a brief Broadway run last year in an English adaptation by Lillian Hellman, hammers hard against the brutal Spanish tyranny that Bolivar battled to overthrow. (Sample: "You live under the domination of men who are ferocious and pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...
...Soviet front has any strength in America today," wrote Hicks, "it is because there are still liberals who provide the verbal cloak of 'social betterment' that hides the nakedness of the brutal revolutionary totalitarianism that is the Communist aim . . . Self deception . . . is nothing new in the history of American liberalism, but today, when it serves so well the purposes of those for whom deception is a basic strategy, and when it effects such a profound corruption of thought and culture, it is a luxury we cannot afford...
...long statement, in which he first underlined what the Chinese Reds have learned of U.N. military power through the last few months of brutal attrition (see WAR IN ASIA), and told them they could not hope...
...They are cynical and hypocritical, and in periods of disintegration, like our own, they become more brutal than over...