Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...
...frustrated people usually blame for their failures not their leaders or foreigners but themselves. Results: ruthless competition for individual advancement, much individual violence, escape in movies and pulp literature...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...supplied the cordial for last week's love feast. Said he: "What we need is not to decrease but to enhance the monopoly called a patent. Genuine protection in that form would be the last surviving bulwark standing between the inventor and the onslaught of mighty and ruthless corporations...
...pits the peasants of Tenorio Viejo, who want irrigation for their lands, against the Don, who wants lace for his coats and whose income is peasants' rents. The peasants are lovable, clumsily funny, tragically simple. But there is nothing lovable about Miss Warner's Juan, imperious, selfish, ruthless, clever...