Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 35, cinema hard guy (The Killers, Brute Force), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Elizabeth. Weight...
...strange sport to most Americans, but to some aficionados it is a supreme art. Other art forms are merely reflections of life; the corrida de torros (festival of bulls) is the realistic struggle of life and death with unfeigned violence and power. Man and mind fight the brute strength of the bull with skill and artistry...
...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...