Word: merciless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patriotism can be instilled by merciless repetition of patriotic songs-as the dictator nations think it can-the U.S. will soon be patriotic indeed. By fiat of Dictator Jimmie Petrillo of the musicians' union (TIME, July 21), The Star-Spangled Banner is now played at the beginning & end of every professional musical program. This week employes in the RCA Victor plant in Camden, N.J. heard the national anthem before work every morning, on a Victor record piped through a public address system...
...would have almost a semicircle of air bases within easy striking distance of the Suez Canal and of Alexandria, the last intact fleet base. General Sir Archibald Wavell's lines of communication from Egypt down to the Red Sea and westward along the Mediterranean would be subject to merciless attack from only 500 miles away...
What Makes Sammy Run? will provide plenty of lively guessing for Hollywood. For Sammy is an accumulation of several current careers, which Author Schulberg has painted with merciless accuracy. Sammy's start in Hollywood came by stealing the story of an underling in the advertising department of the paper, and larceny sponsored his success from then on. At one time, while Sammy was making $500 a week, the real author of his work was on Sammy's payroll for $25. Soon Sammy became a producer, eventually head of the studio after some deft back-stabbing of the people...
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...
...Luftwaffe continued to come over in short nuisance raids and careful military attacks during the day, and in long merciless strangulation by night, Britain's leaders grew more & more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...