Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merciless. What good indeed? At 29, after six turbulent, injurious seasons, Joe Namath has established himself as the pre-eminent quarterback in professional football today. Playing on a pair of frangible knees, Namath-after the 27-17 win by the Miami Dolphins over the Jets this week-had passed for a career total of 116 touchdowns and more than...
...seven years American servicemen have been held in the POW camps of North Vietnam. The North has been exposed to merciless and massive U.S. bombing raids. Negotiations with Hanoi have gained nothing. In the course of the war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed or wounded. Are we continually to lose more lives, waste more money, and send more U.S. pilots to the prisons of North Vietnam in order to supposedly save the POWs? Senator McGovern put it this way on July 24: "The bombing is how the prisoners got into prison. It's the height...
...most merciless enemies, how ever, were loneliness and isolation. For months Hanley's reading matter was a book entitled Engineering Problems in Paraguay. The pressure of making decisions concerning the volatile Somalis drove many British officers into depression and even suicide. Yet solitude seems to have thrown Hanley backon his best resource: a fine, inquisitive mind whose essential romanticism was balanced by experience...
...then Bobby is the hungry Brooklyn wolf. Fischer still plays with the merciless intensity of the onetime boy wonder who said, "I like to see 'em squirm." And not just when the world title is at stake. In international play, where brain-saving draws are a routine matter, Fischer is the only grand master who rarely agrees to settle for a tie game. Even when he is far ahead in a tournament and could coast, he usually answers a request for a draw with a rueful, smiling refusal and then fights on until that magic moment when...
...invigorating qualities. On the other hand, "I'm selfish," she admits, with an apologetic grin, but her eyes challenge any rebuttal of this self-analysis, "and I'm strong minded." "She's human as hell," a student tries to explain in the face of her intimidating vitae and potoriously merciless academic standards, but you couldn't mistake her for a soft-heeled humanist; she's really a tough...