Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortnight at the brink of civil war, Lebanon last week appeared to be at the brink of peace, at least for a time. After several days of furious negotiations, the Lebanese government and the Palestinian guerrillas announced that they had reached "identical viewpoints" on how to settle the bloody, brutal conflict that left more than 350 dead and 700 wounded...
...words of accusation were almost brutal in their bluntness. But now they were hurled, not by some unnamed news source or unspecified Government investigator, but by a federal grand jury in the cold language of criminal indictments. They were directed not at some shadowy spooks and wiretappers with unfamiliar names, but at two of the most prominent and influential former members of Richard Nixon's Administration: Attorney General John N. Mitchell and Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans...
...time, quite funny. It is farce as broad as Shaftesbury Avenue, but its high spirits are not entirely consistent with the great gobs of gore that Director Douglas Hickox leaves smeared about. Violence, under the circumstances, ought to have been a charade, but often it is so brutal and lingering that it spoils the joke...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...
...Bengal midfield mettle began to show in the fourth quarter. In return, the Crimson corps of Garth Ballantyne, John Flood, Rick Carey, Al Costello, Frisbie, Anderson, and Tom Johnsen, played its most brutal period of the season, totalling Tigers and gobbling ground balls...