Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army. "At the beginning of the campaign, the private soldier was regarded as a dangerous brute," but by the end, thanks largely to the terrible charge, "he was a hero. Army welfare and army education, army recreation, sports and physical training, the health services, all came into being as a result of the Crimea." Moreover, the practice of purchasing commissions was abolished. And that is why, for more reasons than were known to Tennyson, readers of this admirable history may say with...
...pygmy is a traveling salesman named Fernand Ravinel who has the face of a brute and the soul of a sparrow. His mistress, Dr. Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says...
Before the end of World War II, the average French schoolchild would have read something like this: "Ever since 1871, the German Kaiserreich, founded through blood and iron and the theft of Alsace-Lorraine . . . has forced upon Europe a new law-the law of brute force...
...bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born President "an alien enemy, a citizen of a foreign state." In the Senate, Sumner cried that Johnson was "an insolent, drunken brute, in comparison with which Caligula's horse† was respectable...
...these depend, according to Rhine, upon the "psi" factor, which is noticeable in about one person in five. For some who do not show it, he invokes a "psi-missing" factor to explain why their clairvoyance is below par. For the brute creation, Rhine now postulates "anpsi" (animal psi), which may or may not be the same as human...