Word: mercilessly
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...padded shoulders and Hudson Hornets is divided into the locals - those who are actually living and working on the film in 1948 - and the visitors - those like himself who were mysteriously dumped there. There are scores of visitors, including a Philadel phia cook named Whittaker Kaiser, who is a merciless lampoon of Norman Mailer at his most masculine pugnacious. Richard Nixon even puts in a brief appearance, wanting to know if there is an extradition treaty between 1948 and the future...
...retail prices have risen much faster; the average paycheck now buys 4.6% less goods and services than a year ago. That is a drop in the purchasing power of Americans without any parallel in the whole post-World War II period. Pensioners are caught in such a merciless squeeze between higher prices and fixed incomes that some aging workers who had looked forward to retirement are now dreading and trying to postpone it. Middle-class people are being pushed into such demeaning economies as buying clothes at rummage sales and cutting contributions to their churches. Two small but indicative examples...
...demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed to have a sobering effect, however, and Caramanlis deplored "this sad event," promising to suppress acts of violence and anarchism in Greece itself with "merciless severity." To show that it was not blaming Greek-Cypriot authorities for the murder, Washington immediately dispatched William R. Crawford, who was Ambassador to Yemen, to take Davies' place...
...novel is a sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism, and it deals with lyric poetry as a species of adolescent neurosis. The hero is an unpleasant young man named Jaromil, whose every childhood uncertainty has been marveled at by his crazed mother as evidence of an artistic soul. Out of resentment of her coarse husband, who hung his smelly socks on her beloved alabaster statuette of Apollo, this monstrous mother determined to make her infant son a poet...
...sometimes small and that their inferences about average well-being on the plantation is morally irrelevant to the outrage of slavery, the psychological anguish it caused, and the agonized voices of indi vidual slaves that have come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips on the subject of economics and statistics. The message is perfectly clear. Historians who do not have these tools could grope for another hundred years in subjective confusion and never be able even to evaluate...