Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to oust the Sandinistas by what we're saying," he noted opaquely, and returned to his oral bashing of the Nicaraguan regime. "I don't think the Sandinistas have a decent leg to stand on. What they have done is totalitarian; it is brutal, cruel...
...Crimson's stand is especially sad for two reasons. First, it comes at a time when a national consensus is emerging on the need for public opposition to the South African government--and at a time when that government has taken ever-more-brutal steps to suppress its Black majority. For The Crimson now to violate that national solidarity places the newspaper on the wrong side of the wrong issue at the wrong time...
...pleaded guilty and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison. But Robert and Lois Bentz, the first couple to be tried, were acquitted last September. Under brutal cross-examination, some of the prosecution's young witnesses, including the Bentzes' own sons, 10 and 6, recanted or told confusing stories. One neighbor's eleven-year-old boy, who had claimed he had had oral sex with Robert Bentz, testified that his story...
Shortly after the picture begins, it depicts a brutal murder in the Philadelphia train station. The crime is witnessed by an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who is traveling with his newly widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy's help, that the murder was committed by high members of his own department who have become involved in the drug trade. The hunter becomes the hunted, and Book, wounded, is forced to seek refuge with the boy and his mother among the Amish, the Pennsylvania Dutch folk who live...
...Houston he is now a local superstar. Initially, despite a doctorate in criminology from Berkeley, Brown got a cool reception when Mayor Kathy Whitmire named him chief in 1982. But he has engineered a remarkable turnaround in a department that for years had a national reputation as brutal and racist. Brown "just took charge and started getting things done," says Larry Troutt, an aide to Whitmire's chief challenger in the past mayoral election. Brown was not a campaign issue, says Troutt, because "across the board, everyone has something good to say about...