Word: mercilessness
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Churches the world over reacted with shock and indignation to the Soviet Union's merciless crushing of Hungary. In a dramatic broadcast to both sides of the Iron Curtain, Pope Pius XII condemned the "illegal and brutal repression" and declared that Christians have "a moral obligation to try all permissible means in order that the dignity and freedom of the Hungarian people be restored." In one of the strongest statements of his pontificate, his voice trembling with emotion, he urged free people to "close their ranks as fast as possible and link in a solid public pact all those...
...three years, Murrow has been trying to lure the Windsors onto his show. This fall the Duchess thought it would be a dignified way of publicizing her new autobiography, The Heart Has Its Reasons (TIME, Oct. 1), and both she and Murrow worked in juicy plugs. But the merciless glare of the TV cameras came a little too close for comfort. The Duchess, like several good-looking girls on TV these days, made the mistake of rushing into the new bouffante hairdo, which the camera reproduces as a bunchy, badly made wig. Otherwise, she looked ageless and chic, but rarely...
...reputation as a "sundowner" (seagoing for martinet) was legendary in the service. In the prewar Navy, where the work was sometimes slack, shore leaves plentiful, he ran a taut command from sunrise to sundown, often ordered gunnery practice on weekends. His drive−like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King, "we've raised...
...merciless blood of your father...
Moltke, heir to all Germany had to offer, repudiated his inheritance. "My whole life long," he wrote to his sons, "I have been fighting against [the] merciless consistency that is latent in the German and that has found its expression in the National Socialist state." To his wife, he wrote: "[They may] take my goods, my honor, my child and wife; the body they may kill; God's truth abideth still, His kingdom is forever...