Word: mercilessness
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Richardson was director of the Pentagon in 1973 when the Nixon administration began six months of merciless bombing in Cambodia. His appointment as successor to Melvin Laird was announced before the carpet-bombing of Hanoi which began in December 1972. Richardson did not refuse that December to become Secretary of Defense. At no time did he make any public statement to protest the terror. He did not resign in February rather than help direct the indiscriminate bombing of Cambodian homes, farms and villages. If Richardson secretly opposed such devastation, he lacked the courage to act on his conviction...
...myself. I would have liked very much for us to part in a different mood. But there was nothing I could do to help him. The difference in our class positions had prevented us from coming to an agreement-despite all possible efforts on my part. Politics is a merciless business, but that realization did not keep me from feeling sorry for Kennedy...
...Strait of Magellan. These prisoners, most of whom were close collaborators of Allende, including several former Cabinet ministers, have not been tortured. But they have been put on a strict and often ruinous military regimen. For many, the hard work and meager diet of bread and beans have proved merciless. After several months on Dawson Island, Allende's Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, was brought to Santiago wearing tattered clothing and in precarious health. In February, former Minister of Interior and Defense José Tohá González committed suicide, according to the government. When brought from Dawson...
...assignment in Russia after the Revolution, at Buchenwald when General Patton liberated it, and nearby when Gandhi was assasinated. Unlike almost every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
...describes him as a Chekhovian figure, but in truth he is a little vague to the reader, and perhaps to her. She doesn't even know whether he is Freudian, Jungian or Adlerian. He is the name of what she clings to. Sarah understands her problem with merciless clarity: she yearns. "Yearn," she writes. "That is a word of such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into...