Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soberly to the polls. But in Polk County, a Democratic pocket in the Republican southeast area, Southern tempers boiled over. Three men were killed and five wounded. The National Guard had to be rushed in. When the votes were tabulated, a non-partisan Good Government League had swept the ruthless organization of ex-Sheriff Burch Biggs, longtime Crump henchman, out of office...
...high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...
...side of the Iron Curtain you have ruthless, fanatic believers in a consistent philosophy a century...
...first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After the war he got a job as clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned into a miserly hermit with a reputation for ruthless mortgage foreclosures, had been bludgeoned to death with a length of gaspipe. The murder is still unsolved...
...this ruthless course of action [of the Soviet Union]," he said, "and the clear design to extend it to the remaining free nations of Europe, that have brought about the critical situation in Europe today." It was his duty, he said, to recommend the measures which would "give support to the free and democratic nations of Europe and to improve the solid foundation of our own national strength...