Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guilty or guiltier in the minds of the spectators were the witnesses: snaggle-toothed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, able and ruthless wartime commander in Italy; and tough, ugly Lieut. Colonel Herbert Kappler, the SS officer who carried out Kesselring's orders down to the last pistol shot...
...publisher for libel. He also demanded that the book be taken off the stands. Adamic, in describing fellow diner Churchill, had written of his "stubborn cranium," had called him "simultaneously honest and dishonest," "a very great leader and . . . also evil," and noted "the eyes and mouth which were shrewd, ruthless, unscrupulous," but just what Churchill considered libelous was not made public. The amount of damages was left up to the jury...
...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front's Georgi Dimitroff continued his ruthless campaign against the opposition, checked slightly by the presence of U.S. political representative Maynard Barnes and by the fact that Bulgaria needs U.S. economic aid. For the second time, Moscow urged the Bulgarian Government to throw out Barnes; for the second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign...
...making more money but the ballplayers. Westbrook Pegler, no union lover, but once a baseball writer himself, was sympathetic to the players: "The owners will have some of themselves to blame. Not all, but enough of them, have been harsh and arrogant, mean in money matters and completely ruthless in imposing on the youth of great players such as Dizzy Dean who used himself up long before his time...
...wary, humorous, thoughtful lecher with stomach trouble, who spends most of his free time worrying about how (and if) he is going to keep an assignation with a lady named Aurelia. During business hours he proves to be an astute, hard-working Florentine spy. He admires Borgia's ruthless audacity, but always from a diplomatic distance...