Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows Korea, it comes as no surprise that South Korean police are as savagely inhuman as their bloodbrothers fighting in the ranks of the North Korean army. Many of them undoubtedly were tutored in Japanese police methods before the liberation in 1945 . . . And let us be frank about it; all Orientals are alike in their contempt for human life and dignity. They are cruel where we have pity; they are brutal where we show compassion; they are ingratiating to those they fear or think superior, but merciless with the weak or inferior who fall into their hands...
...with combat-weary G.I.s, which had brought down the wrath of General MacArthur (TIME, July 24), had largely dried up. Now the cables gave a clearer, more matter-of-fact picture of the kind of guerrilla war the U.N. troops were fighting and how they were reluctantly learning the inhuman way they had to fight it (see WAR IN ASIA...
...hidden in foreign exiles, he had fought inside Russia. He came down through the years, to feel that he knew what Russia needed, and he would go neither too fast nor too slowly to achieve it, though it meant the ruthless execution of hundreds of his friends and the inhuman, starvation of millions of peasants...
...scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter's boat, had a "hand chopped off and sank, purpling the water with his inhuman blood...
...Inhuman Necessities. Jeremiah enters Kentucky politics as a "Reliefer," feels uneasy about the underhanded tactics of his party, but is caught up in a web from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...