Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prisoner is out breaking rocks with 1000 others in the brutal sun of South Africa's infamous Robben Island. If I wanted to. I could blow you away, says the guard. Why do you fight against apartheid? You will never win, he tells the man. What makes you so sure you'll never lose? shoots back the combative prisoner. America will never allow it, the guard gloats...
Another element of Israeli policy in the West Bank that has embittered Arabs is the unequal, and sometimes brutal, enforcement of the law, For example, if Jewish settlers protesting against government actions assault Israeli soldiers, they are likely to receive little or no punishment. For a similar offense. Arab students would probably face still jail sentences or sizeable fines. Arab offenders are often verbally abused and in a few cases physically mistreated by their Israeli jailers...
...buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas?were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some men, some teenagers. Newsmen could not determine why they were killed, or by whom. But one stripped corpse of a youth, lying face down, had a short rope around the neck?a telltale sign often left behind by the national guard...
...high" art and "low" craft. This never went beyond its prototypes. The Dutch did not want to live in such houses or sit in such chairs. Manufacturers did not want to make them. Finally, the belief in progress and human enlightenment, on which De Stijl depended, encountered the brutal history that came in the '30s and '40s. And so, at this far remove, De Stijl retains its fascination as one of the subtlest tissues of Utopian ideas in the history of Western culture. But it is a vision that is proper to museums, and to art; we know...
...rebel troops in El Salvador after fighting to overthrow the Somoza regime in his native Nicaragua. He denied, however, ever having been to Cuba or Ethiopia and said that he had been coerced into that lie by U.S. officials after his capture by Salvadoran National Guardsmen last year. Describing brutal torture in a Salvadoran government jail, he said that U.S. Embassy representatives offered him a simple choice: "They gave me an option. They said I could come here or face certain death. All my previous statements about training in Ethiopia and Cuba were false." He added that he continued...