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...sadistic weakling, a fretful schemer who rose to power through loyalty to Hitler. A onetime official of the Berlin Gestapo, now a refugee in England, described the situation thus: "Without him [Heydrich], Himmler would be just a senseless dummy. . . . Heydrich is young and intelligent, brutal, despotic and merciless. He uses Himmler cleverly. . . . Himmler shines while Heydrich works. Himmler betrays loyalties and friends, Heydrich annihilates them...
...TIME, July 24, 1939), allows three minutes, 15 seconds out of every daytime quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize on the war effort...
Ever since it became a traveler's legend, the Burma Road has been a headache to the men who run it. Torrential rains, merciless bombing, malaria, red tape, British blockade, and technical ignorance have cursed the life of its officials. All these things Newsman Stowe airily brushed aside to come down like a Yunnanese landslide on one single fault: graft. Corruption, he implied, has caused: 1) swollen profits of greedy trucking firms; 2) indiscriminate dumping of war materials just within China's borders; 3) the failure of needed medical goods to get beyond Rangoon...
...bloodthirsty, but let us be realistic and merciless until the end....Let us not hamper our military and naval leaders by sentimentality if they bomb the cities of Japan in order to win this...
...ship sinkings do serve a purpose, it should be to show the nation the handicaps of sending out American ships unarmed and defenceless, at the mercy of any grim and realistic, if not "merciless" raider. A five inch gun on board a merchant ship is powerful as a defensive threat, forcing the submarines under the seas in their attacks. It gives the ship more of an even break. The sooner our ships get guns, the more chance we will have of decreasing the ghastly acceleration of lives lost...