Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What They Say. Betty is now so far out in official Washington that she is almost back in again: tipsters favor her with items they know would be wasted on other, more timid columnists. But once Betty is on to a story, she pursues it with ruthless zeal, never blanching at button holing Washington's most imposing figures to check it out, rarely pausing to consider its consequences...
...vampire who is responsible for the publication of pages from the JFK Coloring Book [June 8] should get on his knees and pray God's forgiveness for the most pernicious, diabolic, venomous, ruthless, inhuman attack...
With full independence for a Moslem-run Algeria only weeks away, the country's million Europeans are deservedly fearful of what the future may bring. The daily slaughter of Moslem men. women and children by ruthless S.A.O. gunmen continues; so far, the Moslems have not massively retaliated. But after the July 1 referendum, which is certain to be won by Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems, a bloodbath is feared. Said a refugee: "We heard reports that on the day after referendum, Moslems will sweep into the European parts of Algiers and kill everyone." So great...
Profits & Problems. Corruption, nepotism, inefficiency have been largely eliminated by ruthless methods, and U.S. officials, who channel $250 million in annual aid, give Park's military administrators high marks. Although unemployment is still high-2,500,000 are out of work or underemployed-prices are fairly steady and the currency has been stabilized...
...physics-mathematics researchers in business. "You have to be able to waste a million now and then," he noted. In order to achieve uniform quality, the people working on the M.I.T. high school physics course under the energetic leadership of Tech professor Jerrold Zacharias had to be "damned ruthless" in rejecting the contributions of even Nobel Prize-winning scientists...