Word: pitilessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World of Strangers, by Nadine Gordimer. South Africa's best novelist probes the fate of a middle-of-the-roader trapped in the pitiless struggle of white v. black...
Labor. Long the handmaiden of the Democratic Party, organized labor has suffered its worst shame in decades at the hands of the Senate's McClellan laborrackets investigating committee. The pitiless expose of labor corruption by Democrat John McClellan has revolted the nation and emboldened Republicans to make labor reform a campaign issue. Last week the Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats...
Promising to press his campaign against Yugoslav heresy to a victorious end, Khrushchev congratulated the East German party on its "pitiless struggle for purity against revisionism and opportunism," and won his loudest cheer of the day with a final promise: starting Jan. 1, 1959, East Germany will no longer have to pay $144 million annual support contributions to the Soviet forces...
...back porch, for forty-two remaining sophomores, the suspense has reached its most pitiless climax. Since almost everyone who was inside has gone home now and the porch has long been growing chilly, the one-hundred percenters are permitted to move into the Ivy dining room. They can see the silver candelabras now and the rows of empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to thirty-five as the discouraging hours pass, then six give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another six are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice...
...movie relentlessly propels Dr. Helga Reinbeck toward a pitiless, inescapable end. Typhus cuts down scores of the Yugoslav fighters. Their medicine supplies run out. Helga and a woman partisan (Barbara Rutting), veiled in the garb of Moslem peasants, steal into a Nazi-held town to retrieve a cache of drugs concealed there. After the other woman is killed, Helga, bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize...