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Word: brutally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pure vocal equipment than Dylan, she digs deep into her Pitman, New Jersey, garbage-cans-crashing-in-the-morning voice to come up with some sultry Piaf and sneering Jagger and belts it out with a kind of controlled epileptic frenzy. Gangfight scuzz. What's not so simple and brutal are the words. She is a poet and her rock and roll is all based on her poetry. A cultural groupie, it is clear that she has swallowed a lot of influences to have borne the devil child of her work. An article in Rolling Stone about her revealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

North Carolina police were quickly summoned, and found that all of the victims had died less than 24 hours earlier and all but one from brutal beatings around the head. The police began broadcasting descriptions of the five bodies to enforcement authorities along the East Coast; for almost a week they received no help. Meantime the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation managed to trace the shovel found at the murder scene by its serial number to the store where it had been bought-Poch Hardware in Potomac, Md. A flyer was left in the store with pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Bishop Murders | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...unprecedented defiance of Madrid, Alava's provincial authorities declared themselves "profoundly disgusted by the government's acts." More than 30,000 people gathered for the slain men's funeral at the cathedral, where an angry priest thundered against the "brutal violence" of the police. While Vitoria mourned, workers in Bilbao, Pamplona and other Basque cities streamed off their jobs in sympathy, closing down hundreds of factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Death in the North | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...occasional butterfly has come the adjustment to college hockey in general and Harvard hockey in particular. Purdy divides styles of play in East and West, noting that "It's a much faster, finesse-oriented game out here. In the West, it's basically up and down the wing with brutal checking...

Author: By William Scheft, | Title: Some Kinda First Season Phenomena, on the Ice | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

...said against the S.S. and the Police taking drastic steps and putting those known as slackers in concentration camps. Let it happen several times and the news will go around." For all his efforts to distinguish himself from the rest of Hitler's clique, Speer was no less brutal or ruthless than the rest...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Nazi Notebooks | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

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