Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill is cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...
...speech and two rebuttals, Barnes insisted that Communists cannot teach or speak without distorting facts and that he could see no good "in permitting a teacher of youth to one whose life is devoted to concealment and distortion of truth, whose aim is the subjugation of mankind to a ruthless dictatorship...
...Silent People Speak ridicules the idea that Yugoslavia lies behind an iron curtain, and fervently portrays Tito's ruthless satrapy as a democratic government which differs from the U.S. merely in form, not in essence. It is a faithful echo of books which appeared in the '20s and '30s praising the new-type "democracy" of the Soviet Union...
...campaign had also begun, and the U.S. people were in the middle of it. They had not been put there by George Marshall alone. Their decision had been shaped, in part, by the pressure of events -starvation and despair in Europe, the cynical and ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin, the stubborn, mendacious methods of Molotov, the calculated rantings of Andrei Vishinsky...
...Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere boy in years and appearance-nineteen, five feet seven, thin, light-haired, blue-eyed. This was the terrible Kid, companion of thieves and murderers since he had quit school at the age of eleven, ruthless killer of at least six men (some said nineteen...