Word: ruthlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prisoner King. That democracy arrived at all was remarkable, for the 9,000,000 people of Nepal have spent only the last eight years in the 20th century. Before that, the nation was a feudal state governed by the Ranas, a ruthless family of hereditary Prime Ministers who kept...
...course, ruthless, utterly cynical, a fluent liar, and (in the opinion of some psychiatrists) a paranoid personality. And yet "there was to this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself...
BOSTON HERALD: The rejection of Admiral Strauss's appointment was an act of ruthless vindictiveness...
...appellate court. Last week Jimmy Hoffa got the shock of his busy life: three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals not only upheld the bulk of Judge Letts's order, but gave it teeth that seemed likely to take a big bite out of Hoffa in his ruthless drive for power...
Four years ago, TV Playwright Rod Serling made his reputation with Patterns, a cliche-ridden but highly effective drama about a ruthless power struggle inside Big Business. Last week, as if to even things up, Playwright Serling took on Big Labor. The Rank and File (on CBS's Playhouse 99) sprawled across two decades of picket lines and meeting halls, was less neatly patterned than Patterns, with its close-order action around the directors' table. But, because exectuive suites have become a show-business commonplace, while the union local is still relatively fresh territory, The Rank and File...