Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow . . .inadequate. Our literature paces like an un-happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing someone: a perfect model of the literary life...
...grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with European bureaus...
Mirror-image uncertainties apply on the Soviet side. The men in the Kremlin, for all their energetic deployment and testing of weapons, are no more sure of what would happen in a nuclear war than is anyone in the U.S. Despite their willingness to rely on brute force, the Soviet leaders have shown no inclination to risk nuclear war with the U.S. By nature, they tend to assume the worst and prepare for the worst, which is one reason why they arm as much as they do. America's land-based iCBMs are supposedly vulnerable to a Soviet
...offense, the freshmen should play a particularly large role. One of the team's alltime leading scores, senior Norm Forbush, is back, and will be joined by Yardlings Rob Halley and Steve Bartenfelder. Halley adds quickness and Bartenfelder complements Halley's speed with his brute strength...
Rutgers' height and jumping ability precluded Crimson attempts to attack double blocks and forced Harvard to alter its game plan. The Crimson concentrated on fakes rather than brute force in an effort to isolate blockers. Because Harvard faced spikers who could hit over blocks, the spikers had to rely more than usual on back-court defense...