Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced that the manufacturers have been ruthless in pursuing their objective, which has been the selling of new automobiles regardless of the consequences and that the contract entered into by the manufacturer and the dealer is the most efficient weapon they have at their disposal in seeking their objective...
...this was a single, small, dramatic incident in what is apparently a ruthless Nazi drive to strip as many Austrian Jews as possible of their possessions, then further harass them by "expelling" them to neighboring countries which cannot support penniless refugees, are forced to acts of "expelling" Jews back into Greater Germany...
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration. But the play is tragicomedy, impaling human foibles as well as hearts. Tender but ruthless, The Sea Gull smiles upon the too-utterly-utter side of the artistic temperament, reflects the conflict between two incompatible generations. It exposes Trigorin's rueful egotism: "On my tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded...
...must realize that some of the rulers of the States we have to deal with are not idealists and sentimentalists, but cold, hardheaded. ruthless, determined men. . . . Such men are more easily impressed by high explosives than by high objectives. "We are not our brother's keeper and we cannot go running about all over Europe like a knight-errant rescuing damsels in distress. It is not our job to play the part of an amiable Don Quixote...
Three thousand benches were lugged into the disused Northwest Railway Station, and soon 25,000 people jammed this impromptu auditorium, bellowing guttural cheers as Orator Göring in ruthless fashion rammed all the most provocative Nazi doctrines home. Austrian Monarchists he first taunted, by referring to the head of the House of Habsburg as "This comic boy, Archduke Otto!" (guffaws) Grimly Göring warned: "If Legitimism†continues, it will be treated as high treason, regardless of whether the charge strikes at an archduke or a worker!" Meanwhile last week, put under Nazi lock & key near Salzburg...