Word: mercilessly
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When the war began, Romains had finished eight volumes of his novel (16 in the French edition). Published in December 1939 was Verdun, a merciless account of World War I slaughter, and a harrowing picture of inhuman French officership...
...congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
...King George IV, King William IV, Sir Harry Burrard, the Horse Guards, his brilliant brother Richard, Lord Wellesley, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, his friend Lord Castlereagh, the Hindoos, the Portuguese, the Spanish generals. But in this long catalogue of enemies and enmity the most merciless, damaging and unrelenting were the English poets and prose writers, and the spirit of sardonic mockery they expressed, not only against the Duke but against the conservative principles for which he was the ablest warrior...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
...measures decreed for the protection of German interests in the face of events in Italy are very hard. . . . [But] we all know that, in this merciless fight, according to the intentions of our enemies, the vanquished will be destroyed to afford the victor the possibility of living...