Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth of new aid and arms requests from the Rabin government-a not so subtle pressure on Jerusalem to yield. Ford called Dinitz to the White House to discuss the Egyptian proposals on the Sinai. In Israel, there were exaggerated stories that the President had given the ambassador a "brutal" ultimatum to make concessions or risk losing U.S. support. Ford denied that he had given Dinitz any ultimatum but insisted that a Sinai deadlock was "an open invitation to war." Unless the deadlock ends, Ford indicated, the U.S. may be forced to agree to a Geneva conference, which it does...
...surcharged the atmosphere, leading to violent incidents." Although she did not mention the apparent attempt on her own life in March, when a Hindi newspaper editor was arrested with a loaded pistol as he entered the courtroom in which Mrs. Gandhi was testifying, the Prime Minister did cite the "brutal murder" of Railways Minister L.N. Mishra in January and the unsuccessful assassination attempt on India's Chief Justice three months later...
...year begins this week for the U.S. economy-fiscal 1976-and, while the champagne corks are not yet popping, there is reason for at least muted jubilation. The longest, most brutal recession in the lifetime of most Americans is now over, and a recovery is beginning. It is likely to be fitful at first, and the daily headlines will oscillate between bleak and bullish. But shortly after Labor Day, when the usual summer slack period is over, production and sales should be rising fairly rapidly...
America has been far from successful in dealing with the sort of crime that obsesses Americans day and night?I mean street crime, crime that invades our neighborhoods and our homes?murders, robberies, rapes, muggings, holdups, break-ins?the kind of brutal violence that makes us fearful of strangers and afraid to go out at night...
...fringe of London's seedy Pimlico district drew crowds of sightseers titillated by one of Britain's most sensational murder mysteries. Inside the coroner's tiny court on the first floor, a jury of six men and three women was hearing evidence of the brutal bludgeon murder last November of the nanny to a titled family and an attack on her employer, the Countess of Lucan, that put the countess in the hospital for a week (TIME, Nov. 25). Thirty-two witnesses, Lady Lucan among them, dryly recited their testimony as the coroner summarized it in longhand...