Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills, Che felt at home for the first time in his life. Castro quickly made him a lieutenant. Survival meant keeping constantly on the move, and Che ruthlessly goaded his men into motion. During the day he was the merciless martinet, intolerant of weakness and inspiringly confident. In the evening he taught tactics and the use of weapons, read to his men from Cervantes, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Venezuelan novelist (and ex-President) Romulo Gallegos, or recited Pablo Neruda's Communist poetry from memory. As they proved themselves in battle, his men proudly christened themselves...
Joseph Alsop once described him as a frustrated journalist, and while Frankfurter consistently denounced the press as "the chief miseducators of the people," he has a good journalist's keen and sometimes merciless way of sizing up people. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau "hadn't a brain in his head." F.D.R.'s aide, Harry Hopkins, "had a feeling of a mistress toward President Roosevelt." Pundit Walter Lippmann's "job in life is to sit in a noise-proof room and draft things on paper" without ever going through the "heartbreaks of getting agreement...
Your Powers' cover story is a sad example of the "great drama" reduced to a piece of poor reporting under the hashing pressure of a frantic, impersonal effort to meet at any price a merciless deadline...
...stranded company, and they all began the painful descent to the 10,200-ft. base, where the Air Force had dropped a twelve-day supply of food and equipment. In the storm, the rescued and their striving saviors waited, walled in by the white, the cold and the merciless wind in the forbidding heart of the forbidding mountain...
Last week her world was on view for the first time in five years at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries. In those five years, her output has been small, for she is a perfectionist who is merciless with herself. But her new drawings and eleven paintings are proof again of why she has won not only fame but an affection that is rare in a highly charged profession that often seems at war with itself...