Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union of American Hebrew Congregations, sent a scathing letter to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, calling the beatings an "offense to the Jewish spirit" that "violates every principle of human decency and betrays the Zionist dream." Declared Bert Gold, executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee: "Using brute force evokes other times and places when it was used against us." Said Balfour Brickner, senior rabbi of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "When the Israelis become like their enemy, they are no different from their enemy." "We read with shame," wrote four Jewish intellectuals in a letter...
...Wilde was careless, selfish and inconsiderate toward his faithful wife and his children is beyond dispute. But he did not deserve being caught and crushed in a murderous struggle between Bosie and his lunatic father. "The impression that has been given of Queensberry is that he was a simple brute," Ellmann writes, and adds, sounding a little like his subject: "In fact he was a complex one." The marquess, mad at Wilde and the world, threw out insults that practically begged for a libel suit. Wilde unwisely started one, lost and as a result was tried for sodomy and indecent...
...brute strength rarely found at this level of college football," 12th-year coach Clemens says. "He is an integral part of a group [defensive line] that, collectively, is the best unit I've seen here...
Harvard (6-3 overall) hopes to overcome the experience factor tomorrow with brute power...
...expert at dealing with brute force on thefield, Harlow showed delicate care in hiscollection of rare birds' eggs off the field.After his retirement in 1947, Harlow became acurator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...