Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's embittered opponent, the deposed Dictator of Greece, Field Marshal George Kondylis, had just died with extreme suddenness "of a heart attack." In Greece it was inevitable that a death so convenient should seem, ipso facto, another case of foul play. The Field Marshal was a ruthless man with many ruthless enemies...
...where she was the only girl. She had talent, but she was also pretty, 20. Elderly fellow-boarders mooed at her yearningly; she hardly noticed. Young Painter Erni went tramping with her in the country and might have had her for the asking, but he had scruples. Sculptor Ulitsch, ruthless woman-hunter, fascinated her, then frightened her away. She took refuge with an unfeminine girlfriend, and Bohemia was soon calling her "one of those." Then Eva ran away to Italy and discovered a new kind of love in her adoration of a Franciscan monk. Not only saintly but wise...
...them define the issues! We have been specific in our affirmative action. Let them be specific in their negative attack!" Shackles for Liberty. "Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though the advantages under that system went to the ruthless and the strong. They realize that in 34 months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles...
Straight-forward drama with accent on the thrills, "Ceiling Zero" proves exciting in spots though generally a bit pedestrian and rather humorless. The entire action takes place in the central office of the Federal Air Lines which are presided over with ruthless efficiency by Jake Lee, one of the truly old hands. Tex Clark and Dizzy Davis are the two chief pilots, experienced filers of the old school, who refuse to submit to the new efficiency and demand a bit of fun now and then even if the mail or passengers are at stake. This Dizzy chap is quite...
Neither cold weather nor a ruthless campaign of extermination will deter a colony of crimson ants from seeking nourishment in Wigglesworth F entry, Scraps of food, bits of toothpaste, and tender morsels of shaving cream are avidly consumed by the tribe of beasties...