Word: ruthlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play tells of a respectable young woman (Martha Scott) who goes to work for a smooth, ruthless bookie (Murvyn Vye). Though his first rule is that employees may not go out with his customers (to avoid the temptation of putting their interests ahead of his), she disobeys and is soon caught up in a heavy love affair with a tough numbers player (Dane Clark). The two are found out, just at the moment when he legitimately wins a big bet, and the rest of the play is a saga of hideaways, getaways and gunfire. Actors Vye and Clark make persuasive...
...close terms, lives with their son (15) and daughter (17) in Oxford. His friends, who are few but intense, think he is the kindest and one of the cleverest of men. His acquaintances consider him reserved, with a somewhat faded charm, a subacid wit, and a ruthless curiosity about his fellow sinners...
...89th year death came to capricious, inspired, ruthless and sentimental lord of the press...
...intention of leaving the White House until voted out-or carried out... In no sense did I feel his superiority over other men except that he was President, and the greatest politician our country has ever known, and ruthless when it suited his purpose...
...this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability, ruthlessness and adaptability, he seems destined for a leading role in Ruhr industry whatever form of organization it adopts in the future...