Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desperation becomes a prostitute. The real star, however, is Nunn's staging. He sometimes spoils one effect with the hasty arrival of the next, but his conceptions are clear and simple. Almost every manifestation of evil, from Valjean's skulking emergence from prison to the army's brutal murder of a street urchin, takes place in gloom. The shadows are not soporific but turbulent with agonized life. They prefigure the almost celestial light in the finale, as the dead of Paris rise to join the living in a hymn that promises, then demands, a better future. The moment...
...extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...
...Ambassador Veliotes announced from the Achille Lauro that Klinghoffer had been murdered. Two hours later, White House Spokesman Speakes declared that the U.S. was "saddened and outraged by the brutal killing of an innocent American," and urged Egypt "in the strongest terms" to bring the perpetrators to book...
Almost nothing upsets the Chinese more than reminders of Japan's brutal occupation of their country, which took an estimated 20 million lives, before and during World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...
seat racing: the ultimate--and most brutal--test for an individual sweep. Two fours are lined up and raced, two rowers switch boats and the race is repeated. The stronger rower is determined by the relative results of the two races...