Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...winter it becomes harder not to see them, tougher to avert our gaze as we pass them by. The brutal storms of January tear through the cloak of statistics, and once again an abstract problem -- discussed in terms of percentage increases and changing demographics -- becomes a shivering man or woman struggling for survival, a pair of eyes that painfully remind us of our human bond. In cities across the nation shelters overflow, leaving the spillage to cope on steam grates or in subway tunnels or wherever else warmth can be found. These street people are the most destitute...
Still, the atmosphere in Peking last week was redolent of more repressive days. Hu's public demotion was certainly not as cruel as the brutal treatment he received during the Cultural Revolution, when his head was shaved and he was forced to crawl on his hands and knees. But the painful return to forced self-criticism did not seem far off when Hu owned up last week to "mistakes on major issues of political principles." China's newspapers also ran self- criticism, bizarrely apologizing for stories written last fall. No less chilling was the group of scientists who appeared...
Italy was also hit by the brutal winter blitz. In Venice pigeons pecked vainly for bread crumbs on the white-mantled Piazza San Marco, and blankets of snow decked the prows of unused gondolas. The southern regions were battered by gale-force winds that transformed the Naples waterfront into a tangle of wrecked boats and knocked out power lines in Sardinia. Throughout Italy weather conditions caused at least six deaths and several billion dollars' worth of property damage...
...people's courts are a brutal offshoot of street committees that were once promoted by the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress, South Africa's outlawed antiapartheid group. Initially formed to discuss grievances and political protests, the committees have since turned to more direct and violent action...