Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...
Deanne Loonin was a late starter by tennis standards. She didn't pick up a racket until she was 10, but by the time she finished high school in San Diego, Loonin had become one of the top players in the Southern California section's brutal competition...
...both cases, angry Socialist comrades demanded that the International issue an immediate "clarification." The revised documents explicitly condemned the "brutal repression of civil rights" in Poland, and softened Brandt's position on El Salvador by leaving open the possibility for "free and honest elections." His authoritarian approach brought him into conflict with Swedish General Secretary Bernt Carlsson, 44. Early this year in Bonn, Carlsson pointedly reminded Brandt that "this is a Socialist International not a German International." In retaliation, Brandt forced Carlsson to step down last week...
...having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times to secure it. It is a feat of hair-raising tension that earns DeMunn spontaneous applause for his endeavors. But nature is not mocked or appeased. The rope hurtles by the pair in a brutal snowslide that nearly buries them...
Author excellent story, ably presented by screen-writer Kathleen Knutsen Rowell and director Coppola, sensitively explores the pressures which a tradition of delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows...