Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kadar has succeeded in suppressing all active resistance by ruthless use of the secret police, reconstituted under the command of Colonel Laszlo Matyas, strengthened by Hungarian army officers, but still basically made up of the old semi-moronic AVH professionals. The sadists of 60 Stalin Ut (old AVH headquarters) are busier than ever, helped out at a Buda jail by the Russian MVD, which has its own interrogation procedure for VIPs. Scores of Freedom Fighters, including youths and girls, have been brought before summary courts and sentenced to hanging-slow strangulation, old Magyar style...
Child Villages. Damage from Russia's ruthless suppression of the revolt is estimated at $500 million. Russia has offered Kadar a $50 million stopgap loan (in convertible currencies) and promised a new $200 million loan for food grains, oil and raw materials. The Petofi Club, where the revolution sparked, has been replaced by the Tancsics Club, whose meager membership is made up of old Stalinist hangers...
...popular legend is that "Raddy" Radford, professional, is a cold and ruthless man, "Great Stone Face," "owner of the coldest blue eyes in the Pacific," etc. In fact, Radford is a warm man whose disciplined emotions, mastery of his job and unfailing consideration for others have earned him a warm regard. In a subtler sense, the regard paid to Arthur Radford further symbolizes a new military appreciation in this new military age for the quiet man in the big picture who sits and thinks and thereby saves lives and deters wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Mickey Rooney as The Comedian, a ruthless TV star...
...especially the trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...