Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peaceful coexistence of two systems-the socialist and the capitalist." After the cynical nonaggression treaty with Hitler killed off the Popular Front but could not prevent the German attack on Russia, Moscow once again became democracy's ally against a common enemy-only to revert to the old ruthless anti-Western line as soon as the German danger to Russia was over...
...last month in San Francisco (TIME, July 5). Charged Rocky, apparently smarting a bit from Barry's well-publicized personal triumph: "Every objective observer at San Francisco has reported that the proceedings there were dominated by extremist groups carefully organized, well-financed, and operating through the tactics of ruthless, roughshod intimidation...
Defeat by a ruthless foreign power imposes impossible dilemmas upon those who try to negotiate with the enemy. Laval could have safely sat out the war as a private citizen in Auvergne. However history may finally judge him, it is difficult to argue that in doing what he did, he chose the easiest...
...were the products of two remarkable political careers and also of two Britains: Macmillan, the skillful, courageous and often ruthless patrician who had rescued his country from the debris of Suez and led it into an era of unprecedented prosperity; Harold Wilson, the dry, diligent and often devious son of a provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship...
...rival KADU (Kenya African Democratic Union) and Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party, but also dealt skillfully with the clever KANU rivals below him who have been hoping to be named as Kenyatta's heir apparent. They are Tom Mboya, 32, the bright, able and ruthless labor leader who leads a moderate faction inside KANU, and Communist-leaning Oginga Odinga, 52, who wears a blue Mao Tse-tung-style workingman's uniform. Kenyatta moved promptly to secure a proper balance in his new administration, handed almost equal Cabinet posts to the two contenders: Mboya was named Minister...