Word: brutish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duarte not only returned, he returned to run for President again, this time against Roberto d'Aubuisson, a cashiered army major with a brutish past and some unlovely friends. The whispered threats resumed, but Duarte persevered through a March election and May runoff to capture 54% of the vote. The U.S. proclaimed Duarte's victory proof of El Salvador's progress toward democracy, but the new President cautioned against great expectations. "Are we going to arrive at perfection?" he asked. "It is a satisfying thought, but I think not. We are human...
Their city has always been a scrappy place, even brutish, and Chicagoans tend to take a perverse pride in its streetwise, tough-guy posture. Lately, however, even diehard Chicago chauvinists are admitting that the chronic battles-economic, racial, political-may be getting out of hand. Last week the city's school system, third largest in the U.S. with 430,000 students, was shut down by a teachers' strike, the second in two years. Black and Hispanic youth gangs have kept up their amazing homicidal pace, killing six people in the two weeks since the offhand murder...
...anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus in every home. Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward"). In the New World, far from the color and tradition, Don Corleone takes an even more brutish view: "Live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish...
Farrell called Reagan's policy "jack-booted brutish mentality" and desired military aid to EI Salvador...
...Lowell), the chairman of the Democratic State Committee, are diametrically opposed in almost every way; where Atkins is a wealthy blue-blood living off a Swiss trues fund, Shea is strongly rooted in the industrial culture of lower middle-class Lowell; where Atkins is suave, Shea can be brutish, where Atkins toes the solid liberal line. Shea wavers week, the ideological poles of the Democratic party; where Atkins is in with the party bigwigs in Boston, Shea is strong with the local pols in Lowell and Lawrence...