Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations with both China and India, fear of their political and military leverage exerts a stranglehold on Nepal's internal affairs. The government sees public expression of support for either country as a challenge to the authority of the King, one that has been met with imprisonment, fines and brutal retaliation by the military police. The law considers both the King and the constitution to be above criticism: a serious breach of conduct entails an investigation by the Ministry of Information, possible arrests, fines and censorship. Between 1974 and 1975, widespread action against the press resulted in the closing...
...many eulogies last week, the brutal murder at the altar was even compared with that of Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered by courtiers of King Henry II in the 12th century. "Barbaric!" exclaimed Pope John Paul II in Rome. "It is not only his archdiocese but the whole church which suffers from such iniquitous violence...
...opponents of Taiwan's one-party regime, human rights activists predicted that the hearing would be a travesty of justice. Leading U.S. law professors, scholars and writers fired off protests and pleas for leniency to Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark denounced the "brutal use of martial...
Inevitably, some anguished cancer victims will suspect that interferon is being hoarded for use by favored patients. But, says one doctor, "the sad and brutal fact is that if my own mother didn't meet the protocol, she could not get interferon today...
...costumes and the seven beautiful girls cast in the chorus line. In these scenes, Andrew Sellon gives an outstanding performance as the ghoulish Master of Ceremonies. Appearing in heavily rouged whiteface, the host welcomes the other characters, as well as the audience, into the club's milieu, and the brutal world of Hitler's Brownshirts...