Word: mercilessly
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...With the experts thus thoroughly confounded, the defense was no less merciless with lay testimony, trapping prosecution witnesses (including two nurses) in the bog holes of their own faulty memories. When, at last, the exhausted prosecution rested, Lawrence called only two witnesses to bolster his own case. The frustrated Attorney General was not even given the chance of cross-examining the defendant. Confident that he had the case won, the defense counsel decided not to put his client on the stand...
...Vaux, a French Dominican priest who has spent the last 24 of his 53 years in Palestine. Archaeologist de Vaux supervises the publication of the fragments, leads the periodic expeditions to the Qumran ruins. (Features of a typically rugged day there: Mass at 5:30 a.m., digging in the merciless heat until 3 p.m., paper work amid clouds of mosquitoes until midnight.) De Vaux's fellow priest, Polish-born Father Joseph Milik, 35, who left Warsaw when the Communists took over, is known as the Scrollery's fastest man with a fragment. Chicago's Frank Cross...
...There is too much chasing after comfort, profits and riches," he thundered in the accents of an Old Testament patriarch. Israel, he proclaimed, was in danger. Israel's youth must gird itself, man new settlements along the threatened border, stand ready to repel the merciless Arab. Last October, at 70, he risked all on a bold and cunning "preventive war" to knock out Nasser's new, Soviet-supplied army...
...resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides in Chamonix offer only negative encouragement. "Risk your neck if you like," they say in essence, "but don't look...
...telephone," boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...