Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic sequel to West Germans' hopes of "belonging to the world" is that GERMANS GO HOME signs have sprouted in Europe, largely as a result of a few ruthless speculators who boost prices, and the selfish Germans who despoil the scenery with barbed wire and Verboten signs. In Ireland, where onetime SS Hero Otto Skorzeny now raises prizewinning lambs, the clergy has even tried to persuade farmers that it is "patriotic" not to sell their land. One indignant priest, who had twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when...
...that if the bases could be proven a dangerous threat to American or world security, and if the Russians did not withdraw peacefully (as they now seem to be doing), then I would favor a pin-point bombing of the bases rather than an invasion seeking the ruthless destruction of the present Cuban government...
...earlier novels, Andric attacked tyranny by parable, in his later, by character portrayal. In The Vizier's Elephant, the earliest of the four novels, tyranny is symbolized by a rambunctious elephant, the pet of a ruthless Turkish vizier of a Bosnian town. The vizier is seldom seen; instead his elephant takes his place in public, inspiring all the fear, doing all the damage that the vizier normally would. Andric's implied moral: when man is a tyrant, he may as well be a beast...
...Assist for the Kaiser. Fokker's past is not all friendship. The company was founded in 1913 in Germany by a ruthless, conniving aircraft designer named Anthony Fokker, who shucked off his allegiance to The Netherlands to build military aircraft for the Kaiser. Baron von Richthofen and his Flying Circus battled to fame in Fokker triplanes. After Germany's defeat, Anthony Fokker slipped back into The Netherlands, taking along six trainloads of tools and aircraft parts, and set up a new plant. His dependable F-VII monoplane spawned the rise of commercial airlines in the 1920s...
...ruthless, intensive automation, which is backed wholeheartedly by a farsighted shipyard workers' union. Result: Swedish shipbuilders figure that they use only half as many workers as the Japanese on many jobs...