Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ductions running simultaneously on the London stage. World War I found him driving an ambulance through the mud of France and correcting proof for Of Human Bondage. It was this book that began his ambiguous reputation as the most serious popular writer in English. His exotic settings and ruthless eye prompted reviewers to call him the Kipling of the Pacific and the English Maupassant. But by World War II, a younger generation of critics offered a different opinion. Edmund Wilson, whose word was law west of the New Republic, charged that Maugham was a "half-trashy novelist, who writes badly...
...victory was not to be. The hoopsters, who had beaten Princeton earlier in the season by a convincing 24-point margin, stood at the receiving end of a 75-54 whitewashing at the hands of the ruthless Tigers...
...leader, and they called on him several times last week for "specific instructions." From Khomeini himself, ailing in a Tehran hospital, there came an enigmatic message to a huge crowd celebrating the first anniversary of the country's Islamic Revolution. Iran must continue "its decisive struggle against the ruthless, expansionist U.S.," said Khomeini, but he also said that "normal, very ordinary relations could be established...
...best remain, glittering stories about glittering people. Cocteau and Colette, Coward and Capote, Garbo and De Gaulle. Advising the young Beaton about clothes, Noel Coward, for instance, sounds like one of his own characters. "One would like to indulge one's own taste," he says. "[But] I take ruthless stock of myself in the mirror before going out. A polo jumper or unfortunate tie exposes one to danger...
...Abel Muzorewa are equally distressed by the activities of his heavily armed "auxiliaries," numbering between 16,000 and 20,000 according to various estimates. Known as Pfumo Re-vanhu (spear of the people), this force was recruited some 18 months ago from among "reformed" guerrillas. In their o ten ruthless efforts to regain rural areas from Patriotic Front control, the auxiliaries have won a reputation as bullies dedicated to furthering Muzorewa's political fortunes by violence and intimidation...