Word: mercilessness
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Diaries are more merciless than TV cameras at exposing those who would manipulate them. The diarist, in fact, plays a doubly dangerous game. If he fakes or withholds the evidence that is his life, he will certainly give himself away. On the other hand, to strip oneself bare is not necessarily to make oneself lovable. Samuel Pepys, the diarist's diarist, ran this second risk. The self that Pepys portrayed for nine years, beginning Jan. 1, 1660, was laid startlingly bare, so much so that the diarist resorted to a shorthand code. The code has long since been cracked...
...against the 14th-ranked Pennsylvania Quakers at the IAB on Saturday night, Harvard found yet another way to lose. but in this instance, the Crimson had little to say in the matter. The Quakers chose the opening minutes of the second half to turn a close game into a merciless rout, and once this decision had been made. Harvard never had a chance, falling...
...fact that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
Zarkov to adventures in the shadowy cave world of the witch-queen Azura, one of the most sinuous vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort...
...John Wilmot was able to enjoy a relatively unscathed youth reading the classics, going to Oxford when he was only thirteen and graduating the following year with a Master of Arts. But whatever favors Rochester might have received because of his family's dual politics, his sharp wit and merciless opinions garnered him plenty of attention...