Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the New York Herald Tribune: "A fairly brutal sacrifice of American foreign policy to Roosevelt fourth-term politics. Secretary-Hull has the ear of Congress. . . . Mr. Welles has apparently had most of the ideas and the firmest grasp of any one in the State Department over the actual problems of the future...
...this week a 300-lb., illiterate ex-god named Suleiman Effendi Murshed, 38, eased himself for the first time into his seat in the Chamber of Deputies and prepared to think politically. Cannily aligning himself with the moderates, he set out to show the folks back in the bare, brutal hills behind Latakia in northern Syria that their god had done well to trade in his robes for a Deputy's toga. He and every other Deputy, new & old, had one program: independence from the French...
...tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...
...history which the Bell dramatizes, Paramount's executives have kept an almost divine political detachment. Says Chairman of the Board Adolph Zukor: "It is a great picture, without political significance. We are not for or against anybody." Says Director Sam Wood: "It is a love story against a brutal background. It would be the same love story if they were on the other side." Says Paramount President Barney Balaban: "We don't think it will make any trouble...
...overwhelming majority of Americans (67%) feel that they can get along considerably better with Germany than with Japan after the war, the Gallup Poll reported last week. The pollsters documented U.S. hate for Japan by jotting down the adjectives citizens applied to the Jap: "Barbaric, evil, brutal, dirty, treacherous, sneaky, fanatical, savage, inhuman, bestial, uncivilized, un-Christian and thoroughly untrustworthy...