Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a sense of political irony as well as holy resurrection. Two and a half years ago, in an act of brutal pragmatism, Chirac rejected his own party's Guallist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, in the French presidential elections and threw his support to Giscard, the more likely winner. Now Chirac was promising to lead the Gaullists out of the wilderness, to save France from the man he had helped elect...
...bulldozer." Chirac's time is spent on little but his work. He averages two weekends a month at his Correze chateau with his wife Bernadette and two daughters, Laurence, 18, and Claude, 15. He has no hobbies, plays no sport. Bristling with nervous energy, he can be brutal to his staff. He often startles visitors by leaping from behind his desk and pacing the office...
Saturday night's basketball game against Boston College will go down as just another loss for the perennially overmatched Crimson hoopsters, but at the same time the 75-71 decision will be a brutal slap in the face for those who said that this team is incapable of producing exciting basketball...
...stay put in the White House. He lacked the style to win on the hustings; his best bet was to appear presidential while Carter got into trouble on the road. "You cannot overcome the Carter lead on your own no matter what you do," the report warned with almost brutal candor. "You are not now perceived as being a strong, decisive leader by anywhere near a majority of the American people . . . You cannot possibly win without a highly disciplined and directionalized campaign...
...poultry to 69% on meat. Although many Poles concede that increases were necessary and long overdue, they expected them to be gradually imposed. Real wages had risen 7.1% annually since 1971, while prices of basic foodstuffs remained frozen, causing scarcities and a totally artificial price structure. But the brutal suddenness of the price hikes brought the workers into the streets once more. "It was as if the entire population had been thrown into the Baltic Sea in the middle of December," observed a Western diplomat...