Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he is probably the most despisable man in the world, nor the crudest, nor the most ruthless . . . but simply because ... he has awakened in the world's democracies the knowledge that they can no longer rest on their laurels...
...most vehement opposition to this plan, even as a temporary remedy, will come from the House Masters. Strong, even ruthless, steps should be taken in quelling the objections of these gentlemen, especially when based on any such vague and dubious arguments as that of "House unity," which the inter-House system and undergraduate perversity have already destroyed...
...surplus population is the greatest and the post-war impoverishment the most acute. It is no accident, surely, that with the non-European world closed to European migration and in large part to European trade, there should have followed so quickly a fierce movement toward empire and a ruthless spoliation of the more defenseless minorities...
...anti-Semitic newsorgan of the world. No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is a part-time virtuoso of antiSemitism, using his Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment alternately to incite and to calm German anti-Semitic mobs. And No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm GÖring is a ruthless German activist who signs the most drastic anti-Semitic decrees and has them legally enforced by the courts, the police and the army...
Only mildly sensational among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...