Word: mercilessness
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...Becker, 31, were experienced reporters who had covered the Indochina war in both Viet Nam and Cambodia for extended periods. Their 1,000-mile trip through eleven of Cambodia's 19 provinces was clearly an attempt by the Cambodian regime to counteract its worldwide image as a merciless, anonymous and genocidal regime. That image has been fed by the accounts of postrevolutionary life given by thousands of refugees in neighboring Thailand and Viet Nam. Caldwell, a lecturer in Southeast Asian economic history at the University of London, accompanied the reporters as a sympathetic student of Cambodia's agrarian...
...that is nothing new. Now, they've started throwing cans and metal objects out, too. The hotel has got to pay to rent a car for a woman whose car windshield was smashed by a falling bottle." The chaperones and the HMUN organizers look decidedly unamused. Lawrence is merciless. "We're getting calls from the residents on St. Germain St...The kids are hanging obscene signs in their windows and..." pause "...mooning...
Again, Moynihan does not want this to be just another set of political memoirs. Yet it is filled with deft and often merciless insights into many of his political adversaries. The most biting remarks are saved for Henry Kissenger. Moynihan finds it in himself to finish by calling him "a good friend," but through the book he provides some of the most acid elucidation of Kissinger's manipulative tactics yet to appear in print. Indeed, if there is one quality that pervades this volume, it is a relish in going on the defensive, something Moynihan readily admits. A good third...
...fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...
Four years ago he surprised the experts by leading the U.S. Equestrian Team to a world championship at Burghley, England, and winning for himself a gold medal. Now Bruce Davidson, 28, cool, aristocratic, and every lean inch a horseman, prepared under a merciless Kentucky sun to defend his title against the best riders in his dangerous and specialized sport...