Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world in which the bizarre, the senseless and the cruel soon become commonplace, no one-outside the inhabitants themselves-paid much attention last week to Kukang. Three months ago it was a thriving coastal village. Its farmers and fishermen prospered from land and sea. And then the Communist artillery attack began, and the villagers hastily dug shelters in the ground...
MEDEA : Ah! Leave here? If this is to be my cruel destiny, In leaving, Medea Will tear out your heart! Cruel...
JASON: Fatal, vile sorceress, Cruel woman, whom I have cast out, go away, go away from here! Your punishment awaits...
...puzzled by the reference in your kindly review of Our Man in Havana to my slipping in a cruel] pointless carica ture of a dumb U.S. businessman." I can't remember any such character...
...stirring Burma. Joining the revolutionary Thakin group, Ne Win was one of the famed "30 comrades" who were smuggled to Japan in 1941 for military training. When the Japanese occupied Burma, Ne Win came with them, but, like the other Thakins, soon discovered that the Japanese occupiers were more cruel than the British, and began fighting them. He has been fighting ever since: against the rebellious Karen tribesmen, against 9,000 Chinese Nationalists along the China border, against the insurgent Communists in the jungles, swamps and paddies where some 4,000 of his soldiers have died...