Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about run out of patience with François Duvalier, the hard-eyed dictator who holds ruthless power in Haiti. All aid-amounting to $7,250,000 this year-to Duvalier's graft-ridden regime has been suspended for three months. No more arms are being sent in, and the U.S. has demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti...
...with a 1,000-word letter to constituencies, warning that the party has no room for workers without "the zest that must be an essential part of our appeal." And in a closed meeting with Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister zestfully echoed another knife-wielding Mac known for his ruthless ambition. Defending the suddenness of his massacre, Macmillan said with Macbeth: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly...
...curiously, there are fewer this year. The infant mortality rate among television shows has gone into a slight decline. TV's mediocrity is apparently becoming institutional, and some programs are being kept alive for next season that would have been kicked into oblivion in the more ruthless years...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has a reputation for being unflappable. But ambitious young Tory backbenchers have long complained that he is not ruthless enough in cutting away political liabilities and making room on his Cabinet team for new faces. Harold Macmillan last week again proved that he can be both flappable and ruthless. In a move that shook Britain, he summarily fired seven members of his 21-man Cabinet and reshuffled twice as many portfolios. Inevitably, the press called him "Mac the Knife...
...since whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until, in 1955, he was elected chief whip...