Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front bench of Labor gasped in surprise at the size of Be van's rebellion. Attlee, mild in appearance but a ruthless taskmaster in matters of party regularity, jerkily jumped to his feet, left the House without a word, and took the train to his Buckinghamshire home. But next day he ordered an emergency meeting of all 294 Labor M.P.s for this week, to consider the defiance of his leadership. In rebuttal, brash Nye Bevan demanded and got an emergency session of Labor's executive committee, to be held later in the week. Bevanites are outnumbered...
...Ruthless slaughter of infected or exposed stock, plus enforcement of strict quarantine measures, are the only known methods of stamping out the savagely virulent disease. Canada's Department of Agriculture is enforcing both measures to the limit in Saskatchewan. The 22 farms where the disease exists have been tightly quarantined. Bulldozers have begun digging a series of deep trenches on the hard-frozen prairies. As fast as the mass graves can be dug, cattle, sheep and goats from the infected farms are herded into them and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables with .303 rifles. More than...
...stages of the rioting: the rifle shot that a fortnight ago killed Bridget Ann Timbers, an American nun, outside the convent in Ismailia where she had been stationed. The nun's death, for which each side blamed the other, was followed by bloody rioting in Ismailia, and a ruthless house-to-house search by the British for guerrillas and hidden weapons...
Scandal Sheet (Columbia] takes a faded leaf out of such newspaper melodramas as Five Star Final (1931) and Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
Outlook: Believes the Kremlin represents the most ruthless dictatorship in modern times, but that it may change or collapse under internal pressures, possibly at Stalin's death. In general, approves Dean Acheson's foreign-policy course, both in Europe and Asia. Thinks the West should never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles...