Word: mistreat
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Child psychologists believe that the British tendency to mistreat their young may be connected with traditional British reserve. Said one specialist: "Many parents think it soppy and embarrassing to show affection. To cover up their embarrassment they become extra strict and demanding, even to the point of mental, if not physical, cruelty...
There is commendable candor in the film's telling of its strange love story. Hemingway fans, anticipating how the movie might mistreat the tragic circumstance of the hero's sexual impotency resulting from a battle wound, will be happy to learn that Jake Barnes (sensitively played by Tyrone Power) is informed of his deficiency in exactly that term-"impotent." Nor is there any pussyfooting about the nymphomania of the heroine, who settles for all men in lieu of Jake whom she loves; as man-crazy Lady Ashley (Brett), Ava Gardner turns in the most realistic performance...
...completely new Civil Rights Act to punish state officials who "outrageously" mistreat persons under arrest...
...some Viet Minh soldiers, their helmets camouflaged with leaves, came into our bunker. 'We are fighting for our country,' a Viet Minh officer told us, 'and there are things worse than that.' Some of the Viets were laughing, but there was no attempt to mistreat us. The Viets said in French for our doctors, orderlies and walking wounded to form column, and they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress...
...Minor mistreatment of prisoners was also part of the German pattern, in which superiors mistreat subordinates, Dr. Cohen reasons. Most difficult to explain, he found, were deliberately planned tortures. He feels these cases cannot be dismissed as simple sadism. Rather, he believes, they resulted from Freud's drive of aggression, heightened by frustration. "Normally this drive is counteracted by mental inhibitions provided by society, but Nazi society supported this aggression...