Word: ruthlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME can quickly gloss over this little politician's drive for power and his incredibly dirty and ruthless campaigns in California, but those campaigns still remain a shameful memory in California...
...costume novel at all; it is a new appraisal of an ancient subject -human mortality. Death, and the behavior of people in the face of death, make its subject matter, but its main question is: How should man behave, ideally, when confronted by his oldest, most ruthless enemy...
Like Cesare himself, whose violent life came to a violent end at 32, the tomb was not long for this world. In 1527, a touring bishop of Calahorra. whose family had long been persecuted by Rome's ruthless Borgias, caught sight of it and howled at the outrage of such a sinner as Cesare being buried in church ground. The sarcophagus was demolished forthwith. The remains of Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and himself a cardinal at 18, an accomplished murderer at 25, and military conqueror of a good part of Italy at 27, were carried...
...every respect: Jawaharlal Nehru, the exasperating high priest of neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss his great claim to distinction: without his half-century fight for liberty and his stouthearted hatred of Communism, there would have been no South Korea to save...
Without naming Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., he said the Harry Dexter White case had been brought up "by the same politician who engineered the ruthless, reckless attack on the ethics of Senator Taft and his followers in the last Republican Convention." Apparently untroubled by taking the side of the Republican element he had often condemned as "the Old Guard," Stevenson went on to define his stand on the exposure of Communists in Government. "Root out, I say. agents .of this satanic worldwide conspiracy, disclose the mistakes and failures of the past, assess the responsibility, let the chips fall where...