Word: violente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...undercover cop on the side. He carried an attache case in which he kept a phony highway patrol man's badge and identification, handcuffs, and photos of nude women. A neighbor recalls him as "sometimes too friendly, always trying to impress." At times, how ever, he had violent outbreaks of temper and threw heavy objects against the walls of his apartment...
...past. If she will not, or if she cannot, the divisions of North vs. South, inner-city vs. suburbia, haves vs. have-nots, exacerbated by racial and class tensions, may turn the Tory dawn into a nightmare in which the weakest go to the wall and where violent confrontation--even on the streets--may belie Britain's reputation as a haven of political decency and stability...
...Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and have wrought their vision into The Price of Defense, a book about the American military that is at once humane and informative, radical and sensible, evident yet original. For the most part, they have avoided both the military jargon that sanitizes insanity and the tired, violent rhetoric of destruction. Though the book's voice is somewhat anonymous (an inevitable result of group writing) occasionally lapses into obfuscation (kill capability, unacceptable damage and soft-skinned targets), it generally speaks plainly and directly, a welcome virtue in a book about military policy...
...posed to his mastery over the country. "Mysterious hands are sowing disunity. Satanic plans are under way by America and its agents," he declared. His outburst had been provoked by the disaffection of a fellow Shi'ite leader, Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, who touched off a new round of violent clashes and demonstrations by withdrawing from politics as a protest against the mysterious arrests of two of his sons and a daughter-in-law by Islamic militiamen. By week's end the threat of escalation had grown so great that both men were prompted to back down. But, though...
...eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach the people. His last synthesis before he descended into alcoholism and depression was to try to recreate Elvis...