Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play, the valiant medicos are frequently treated as very human men-ruthless, sharp-tongued, short-tempered. But in last week's production, they too often performed as though aware of the spotlight. Their actual heroism was a little blunted by touches of heroics, and Yellow Jack, by becoming more theatrical than it need be, seemed less dramatic than...
Sometimes resistance to Communist pressure would be as direct and ruthless as that at Maragha in Persia, where four men accused as leaders of the Communist-inspired revolt in Azerbaijan province were hanged (see cut) as examples to others who might be tempted to follow the Russian line...
...accomplish these traditional Communist ends, China's Reds are prepared to use traditional Communist means. Yenan's ruthless strategy is as old as Lenin's: "The Communists, by their unwillingness to compromise in the national interest, are evidently counting on an economic collapse to bring about the fall of the Government, accelerated by extensive guerrilla action against the long lines of rail communications-regardless of the cost in suffering to the Chinese people...
...Harry Truman's standards, he had been ruthless; this was a tight budget. (The Army & Navy had at first wanted $22 billion, formally requested $15.6 billion, lost a quarter of that under Truman's surgery.) But it was not tight enough for many Congressmen of both parties.. The loudest outcry was over the fact that Truman wanted to go right on collecting taxes at present rates. Republicans were determined to cut them. But first they had to cut the budget. Ohio's Robert Taft thought between $3 and billion could be squeezed out, without touching Army...
...likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric...