Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Uncas,* friendly Pequod who later organized the Mohegans (an offshoot of the Mohicans), became the No. i sachem of Connecticut. In 1659 he sold the English for ?70 nine sq. mi. for the settlement of Norwich. He fought with them against other Indian tribes, horrified pious colonists with ruthless decapitation of his enemies. In 1682 Norwich deeded back to Uncas and "his heirs forever" some 200 acres of land on the edge of town in lieu of ?3 still owing on the original purchase. On this land Uncas was supposed to have been buried along with his grandson...
Dramatically, Mr. Bonynge next described to the Commission "a man of vicious and ruthless disposition": Captain Frederick Hinsch of the German Secret Service who, while held in Baltimore on the interned steamship Neckar, manufactured tubes of anthrax cultures in his cabin, then sallied forth to hire Negroes who jabbed the germs into horses and mules bought by the Allies for War purposes. One batch of 4,500 beasts was jabbed so thoroughly that not one reached France alive...
...ruthless is Rumanian public opinion where Jews are concerned that the genial attitude of King Carol since his restoration has seemed to the Hebrew community almost too good to be true (TIME, June 23). Last week His Majesty followed up an earlier protestation of "love for my Jewish subjects" by exerting pressure on the Minister of Interior. Forthwith the Ministry's Chef de Cabinet, M. Tarfoianu, famed Rumanian Jew-baiter, was dismissed from his post. Jews continued to rejoice that during his protracted exile King Carol took a Jewish mistress...
...though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil's Isles" but recently shown by a neutral investigator to be much as Il Duce proceeded to describe them...
...letter may hold the clue-the hidden motive. The press believe that in exposing the secret lives of the dead man and his wife, the truthful reasons for his shuffling off will out. The police must discover a motive. The press must give the public the truth. In their ruthless, brutal search for this motive, this truth the "news" the police and press "make a show of it," the police for justice and the press "as a safe-guald against injustice." Lady Morecombe, the widowed mother of the dead man, appeals to the Editor of the particular yellow sheet which...