Word: mercilessly
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...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. The decline of a rich old family can be messy and public rather than slow and sequestered. When it is, the process can be funny as well as sad. That is the case in this brilliant, merciless novel...
...next tests will take place in a new vacuum chamber that can duplicate both the cold of space and the merciless heat of the unshielded sun. If the suit survives those trials, it will be ready for Apollo...
...civilization boils about the muddy asphalt and precipitous stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child's merciless eye for dandruff, horse teeth, injustice and facial tics. One of them (the one with the horse teeth) has the pedagogic foible-enchanting to the young-of hanging them by the heels to demonstrate vulgar fractions...
...does the electronic voice penetrate plaster when human voices don't? Sound engineers offer several reasons. The ordinary give-and-take of human conversation varies greatly in its volume level, but the announcer touting jet travel and the interview lady spouting praise at an author are merciless in their demand for attention. They sound as loud as someone addressing a meeting, which, after all, is what they are doing. Furthermore, for obscure sociological reasons, the cheaper the radio, the louder it is played. And a radio's ability to make the tables and walls it touches vibrate along...
...Angeles Lakers, the same team that had battled them on almost equal terms through six games in last season's championship playoffs. Slender Sam Jones poured in 14 points in the first quarter, and Boston Coach Red Auerbach cleared his bench. But even the substitutes were merciless: all twelve men wound up in the scoring column, and the Celtics clobbered the Lakers 114-78. Before the week was out, they had won two more, run their record...