Word: cutthroat
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...Conchos lays money on the somewhat odd proposition that the West was won by losers. Its motley heroes are an incompetent Army officer (Stuart Whitman), his much-abused Negro aide (Cleveland Fullback Jim Brown), a half-breed cutthroat (Tony Franciosa), and a grizzled lay-about (Richard Boone) who loves red-eye as passionately as he loathes redskins...
...crowding the sea lanes. "They produce ships like hamburgers these days," says Niarchos. His own fleet has slipped into second place behind the expanding operations of the U.S.'s Daniel K. Ludwig. More and more oil companies, instead of chartering, are buying their own tankers. As a result, cutthroat competition is common among charter operators such as Niarchos: charter rates for a 42,000-ton tanker have dropped from $4 per deadweight ton in 1956 to $1.90 today...
...dying of cancer but savors a final taste of power as two party hopefuls battle to win his support. "There is nothing like a dirty, lowdown political fight to put the roses in your cheeks," snaps Tracy with cantankerous glee. The candidates before him are Cliff Robertson, a cutthroat crusader who adapts his convictions to the latest Gallup surveys, and Henry Fonda, the idealistic egghead. Fonda lacks the cheek, magnetism, and driving ambition to make his bid for high office seem more than perfunctory. Thus when Robertson threatens to release a medical report showing that Fonda once had a mental...
...Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...
Beasts in the Jungle. Pereira is head and shoulders above what one critic calls "the great beasts of California's architectural jungle?those cutthroat competitors who are grinding out one flashy banality after another." But Pereira is by no means alone. Several of his contemporaries are involved in outstanding examples of regional planning ?most of it in California, with its wide-open spaces and zooming population...