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Word: ruthlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep little else. Chou put it diplomatically: China wanted to be the protector of all three independent Indo-Chinese states. In a matter of months, thousands of gallant Vietnamese who had pledged their lives to the free world's promises would be handed over by default to their ruthless enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Victor's Progress | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

From a wealthy gringo named Everett Sholes. who owns one of Cuernavaca's most sumptuous homes, they took a deposition that told of his illegal detention by state police on charges never specified. He had been threatened with deportation, confiscation of his property, and a ruthless investigation of his closest friends. At that point two other local Yanquis turned up at police headquarters-by coincidence, they claimed-and offered to square things without unpleasant notoriety. They did. at a cost of $20,000. "I asked my family in the U.S. to send me the money." said Sholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Snakes in the Garden | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...Hard Way. Templer's technique of fighting the guerrillas closely paralleled that of Asia's only other successful Communist killer, Philippines President Magsaysay. Both men combined ruthless military pressure with an all-out effort to get the majority of the people on their side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Success of a Mission | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...Tories, they are suffering from the same blindness which crippled them 20 years ago. Remember, it was the Tories, not the Socialists, who advocated appeasement of Hitler. No ideologists themselves, they find it hard to believe that the other fellow can be dominated by a philosophy or by a ruthless ambition. It is not gentlemanly. Just as they thought the Germans would be more tempted by Chamberlain's slogan, "Business as usual," than by dreams of territorial aggrandizement, so now they think the Russians and Chinese are more interested in consolidating what they have and in developing foreign trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peace & Prejudice | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Communists are now on the run. After interviewing Taruc, General Vargas gave his own estimate that Huk strength in the field has fallen from a high of 10,000 in 1948 to less than 1,500. Huk"sympathizers," some of them starved into despair by the government's ruthless pursuit, others attracted by the government's offer of more land and security, have probably been reduced from around a million to about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Surrender of a Communist | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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