Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibbons. The men he had beaten before that were second raters: Herbert Crowely, Martin Burke, Wolfe Larson, Jack Ambrose, Eddie O'Hara, Whitey Meuzel, Fay Reiser. He did very well against them, this mild marine. A handsome lightheavy-weight, well-built but not particularly strong, intelligent but not brutal...
...weapon was a left hook that crippled metaphor, but looked as easy to dodge as a freight train. He was not pretty to look at either, being a somewhat scarred ex-taxi-driver with a thick nose, thick jaw, thick mouth and a pair of cold, slow, brutal eyes. He seemed a fighter without imagination, he ever comes up against a fast man who can hit, he'll be done for," critics said...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
German headline writers attached exclamation points to such belligerent polysyllabic as "MAJESTATSBELEIDIGUNG!" (High Treason!) Wrathy editors distilled their venom into starkly brutal paragraphs. The week brawled out into a stramash of contention?all because some millions of Germans were preparing to seek the polls and cast their ballots upon the following proposition...
...President Coolidge and even more recently backed by Mr. Sargent. Here he has proof positive that one more established prerogative of his particular little self has departed. For the iron hand of authority in his "free country" is now robbed of another gauntlet and is bare and more brutal...