Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bachelor sowing his wild oats was getting worn out. It was the opinion of Fleet Street that he should settle down and do his duty. The press pushed Diana as a girlfriend beyond the reality of the situation in the early stages. Whitaker fell in love with her." The merciless over-coverage of Diana (including, Whitaker boasts, an 80-m.p.h. car caper in which he drove alongside the car she was driving while a photographer snapped her picture) showed the English public a maiden so sweet and wistful that the Prince would have seemed a blackguard had he failed...
...trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough to be heard across Johnson City. He seemed, as Caro puts it, "to be going out of his way to reinforce the impression of his father...
...campus the merciless vitriol of a conservative weekly has provoked an uneasy, university-wide debate about just how much free speech a civilized community can tolerate. Pervading the pages of the Dartmouth Review, founded in 1980, is a sophomoric brand of macho humor. An essay in its Oct. 18 issue spoke scornfully of a "never-never land where men are women and women are persons." The same issue contained a mock memo berating student homosexuals: "Wasn't the closet more comfortable than the trash bag? You guys could suffocate." Contends Editor in Chief E. William Cattan: "We are writing...
Harvard's defense was particularly merciless To-captain Kelly Gately once again smothered Brown forward Frances Fusco while Debbie Field in her return to sweeper and in-captain Jeanne Plersak made key tackles all night long turning away what seemed like certain goals...
Last weekend the ruggers came down to earth in a hurry, losing to the Boston Rugby Club, 57-0. For football fans, that's the equivalent of losing by more than eight touchdowns. Yes, reality can be merciless. But while the winning tradition may be dead, or on hold, the tradition of having fun is thriving...