Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even Communists deny, Russia's present acute meat shortage is due to Dictator Stalin's policy of "ruthless collectivization" which caused millions of peasants to slaughter and eat their cattle before they were forced to join collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed...
...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
Christ or Hitler? Germany obtained the Saar in 1815, proceeded with a ruthless Prussianization which lasted over 100 years and enables Adolf Hitler to shout with substantial truth "Deutsch ist die Saar...
...press associations, of newspapers, of cable companies--and freedom from censorship. The extravagance of one report may be corrected by the moderation of another. There is further the competition of news despatches from many foreign capitals. Affirmation clashes with denial. Oddly enough, national competition still has its value. But ruthless competition in any form (national, or that of profit-greedy newspapers, as during the Cuban crisis, 1895-1898) is as dangerous as autocratic, or monopolistic control. The middle ground of regulated, responsible competition is the modern democratic ideal, as it is also the international ideal. A few countries approximate...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...