Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Mahatma Gandhi wedged in the last word. It was an extraordinary appeal "to every Briton wherever he may be: In God's name ... I do not want Britain to be defeated, nor do I want her to be victorious in the trial of brute strength. ... To win the war Britain must adopt with greater thoroughness the same work of destruction as the Germans, which would be an undignified competition. . . . Let Hitler and Mussolini take possession of your beautiful island, your homes, and allow yourselves to be slaughtered, but refuse to owe allegiance to them. . . . Whatever happens my love...
Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade. They considered Brooklyn Bridge an antique, remarkable for its historical associations (it was built by rule of thumb), esthetically redeemed only by its brute strength...
...fact is that its effects are undermining the very thing it purported to preserve: the democratic way of life. Wherever I mix with those of my own age I encounter that provincial blindness, apathy if you will, which blithely believes that though the whole world is dominated by brute force and the civilized community of nations destroyed, America ("They have to come across the ocean, don't they.") will go merrily on with freedom and opportunity...
Almost to Dunkirk. Behind this armored and mechanized onslaught came a number of German divisions in lorries, and behind them, again, plodded comparatively slowly the dull, brute mass of the ordinary German Army and German people, always ready to be led to the trampling down in other lands of liberties and comforts they never have known in their...
...American, I am ashamed that our national house was in such order as to allow an unsocial brute to violate Colonel Lindbergh's home. And as a human I am ashamed that our international house is in such order as to allow an unsocial brute to violate the homes of the Czechs, the Poles, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Luxembourgeois, the Dutch and the Belgians...