Word: mercilessly
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...liberal enlightenment. The KTA, closely tied to the Korean CIA, has been the conduit for funds from the right-wing Park dictatorship to influential policy-making institutions like Harvard in an attempt to buy further American economic and military aid. Park's regime has carried out massive executions and merciless tortures of those who dare to protest the miserably impoverished lives of the workers and peasants of South Korea...
...could feel the room twirling like a dreydl. The spinach knish I had for lunch started coming up my gullet and I thought I would be sick. "Please stop...please...I'll do anything..." My wrists felt like wet won-tons. She was merciless...
...amounts not so much to a fall as a skydive from grace. Actress Grazyna Dlugolecka, who looks at times like Faye Dunaway in brunette, has just the right kind of childish yet suggestive face to do this descent justice. Behind her babushkas and grey wool dresses we sense a merciless passion just ready to burst out. Explode it soon does, and smothers a cheeky, high-cheek boned arriviste named Lukasz Niepolomski. A Rudolph Nureyev double, he drools over her, duels over her and introduces her to a new brand of ballet...
Berman lampoons the growth of big, expensive hospitals-"Blue Cross Hiltons"-where you go "if you are deathly ill and want your body monitored by everything but a kind soul and a gentle hand." He is merciless about medical greed: "Any M.D. who has to worry about his tax bracket after only six months in practice is a folk hero to his peers." Moreover, he insists, even socialized medicine could not bring back the house call, end unnecessary tonsillectomies or make $5,000 operations a thing of the past. For his resourceful fellow physicians would "never allow the manner...