Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is election week in the Dominican Republic, but El Jefe did little of the talking. There was no need to discuss the election; it was already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican...
...would have no trouble proving that the Nazis could not have made war without Farben. But it would not be so easy to prove which of Farben's prewar activities had been respectable, if ruthless, business practice and which had been criminal warmaking. Nor would U.S. industrialists agree that Farben's deals with U.S. companies had hampered the U.S. war potential. They have maintained that they got from Farben more industrial secrets than they gave. After years of argument, the point was still arguable...
...infidelities are always in the making; arty gatherings and cafe parties which recall the days when Aragon was the darling of the Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical bite in Aurélien...
...example, The Attorney General's carefully worded remark did not touch Mr. Wallace's central thesis. Mr. Clark said, "One who tells the people of Europe that the United States is committed to a ruthless imperialism--and war with the Sovet Union --tells a lie." Under the guise of diplomatic avoidance of mentioning names, Mr. Clark is guilty of innuende, at a time when Mr. Clark himself calls for "clear thinking." It is true that the United States is not yet committed to a ruthless imperialism. The Truman-Vandenberg Doctrine is not yet passed. It is the very...
Like many a man who drives a ruthless bargain, M. Verdoux has his good side. He exhibits an exquisite gentleness toward children, the sick and the maimed, and even the humblest animals. He spares one prospective victim (a new Chaplin protege named Marilyn Nash), when he learns that she is the widow of a disabled war veteran and shares his burning pity for the helpless. He fails to close his deals with certain other clients too. He makes several brilliantly funny attempts on the life of rambunctious Martha Raye, but she was born lucky and is plainly indestructible. He nibbles...