Word: mercilessness
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...half-past seven the lights are lit and the copy box begins its merciless accompaniment to the printer's sharp cry, "Carp-e-e." This box is primarily an invention for conveying manuscript from the desk to the printing room. From then on, the Managing Editor's business is to keep his head, and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning1
EVEN as they pulled voting levers in massive numbers for him, Americans had no way of knowing just where Richard Nixon intended to lead them. After 26 years in politics, including four in the merciless glare of national attention that always focuses on the White House, he remained one of the most unpredictable and ineluctable men in public life. The politician who had always been off and running toward the next race had won the ultimate victory. He could stop now. But what would he do with his triumph...
...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...