Word: mercilessly
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...city, there was cloying uncertainty beneath a merciless summer sun. The familiar guns booming at twilight, the usual outpost skirmishes conveyed new menace to Hanoi's 300,000 people and the 100,000 refugees who poured in around them. About 20,000 Vietnamese have already left for Saigon, and 120 fly out every day (Air Viet Nam space is filled up for all July). Refugees from fallen Namdinh crowded aboard buses for Haiphong in the second phase of their exodus...
Judge Rumpff was shocked. "You have committed a brutal and merciless assault on a boy who was no more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
...Orchard. Already-and quite wonderfully in places-it has Chekhov's fragrance, incisiveness, poignancy; It has dialogue that, if seemingly scrappy and elliptical, constitutes a marvelous sort of notation. Already, Chekhov can convey the apartness and aloneness of people; already, too, he can be about equally compassionate and merciless, not so much acquitting his characters as pardoning them...
Triple Ambition. In the Mexico of 1920, heart disease was as merciless a killer as elsewhere-perhaps worse, because the country had one of the world's highest rates of rheumatic fever.* Young Dr. Chávez wangled scholarships so that he could study the heart in Paris. Vienna and Brussels. Back home, he started a cardiology service in Mexico City's- General Hospital and gathered around him a group of equally dedicated physicians. In the early '30s, they got the idea for "an institute that would be at once a modern hospital for heart patients...
...murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Columnist O'Donnell gave his recommendations for the type of punishment needed to fit the crime. Wrote O'Donnell: "Cruel and unusual punishment [for these criminals], as prolonged as medical skill can accomplish, and as ferocious and merciless as tales of ancient torture can conceive, imposed publicly before all criminals and suspects in Yankee Stadium and brought by TV to every reformatory, jailhouse and parole-board hearing room, might instill [in others] some restraining fear of inevitable punishment...