Word: pitilessly
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...were told just about nothing. In most Moslem nations, the report of the Hungarian bloodshed and the emotional response to it were dulled, even drowned, by indignation at the Franco-British-Israeli invasion of Egypt. An exception: Tunisia's Moslem Premier Habib Bourguiba, who indicted Russia for "waging pitiless war against a weak country...
...ordered ten infantry battalions, a reconnaissance regiment and 2,000 policemen to Algeria, bringing the French forces there to 100.000-20,000 more than the French expeditionary force remaining in Indo-China. "Repression will be pitiless," warned Minister of the Interior Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. Grappling with the Tunisian problem, Faure talked Bourguiba into postponing his scheduled triumphant return to Tunis after three years of exile, and ordered negotiations for a final settlement resumed immediately...
...Socialist. At one point during his long inquisition before the Diet, 76-year-old Shigeru Yoshida, Premier of Japan for seven years, began to defend himself, but lost his way through his notes. "Ah ... ah ... ah," he mumbled, shuffling his papers. "Ah ... ah ... ah," his enemies mimicked him in pitiless unison...
...week. By posters, leaflets dropped from airplanes, public announcements in mosques, the offer will be proclaimed. Those fellaghas who turn in their arms within six days will be allowed to go their way without punishment or harassment of any kind. If the amnesty offer fails, Minister Fouchet promised a "pitiless" military campaign against the rebels...
...different sort. Catholic priest and the wife of his best friend quite suddenly find that they are in love with each other. Here is where a naturalist would lead his characters into the widest fights of criticism: the unfortunate, quite passionless husband would be painted in a pitiless, scoffing manner, and certainly the love scenes between priest and wife could be ignored in all their sordid and demented glory. But O'Connor merely comments, "He (the husband) as he really was, a man at war with his animal nature, longing for some high, solitary existence f the intellect and imagination...