Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...
...crude, ruthless, barbarous, imperialistic" aggressor in Korea. It is guilty of "ruthless, intolerable, illegal and barbarous bombing . . . against the peaceful population." It is intervening in "a civil war." It has tried to enslave Korea "into a colony of American monopolies." It is also trying to "stifle the lawful aspirations of ... the Chinese people, the Viet Nam people, and other people in Asiatic countries who are striving for freedom and national independence...
...Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists in "liberated villages,"and he has ordered French prisoners buried alive...
Holden becomes a pawn of Norma Desmond's ruthless obsession: to regain her lost glory both as an actress and a woman. In need of a haven and money, he is maneuvered into joining the menage when she offers him the job of patching up the terrible scenario she has written for her comeback as Salome. Weak and reluctant, but never reluctant enough, he stays on as her gigolo...
...South Korea are part of a worldwide conspiracy against the way of life of the free democracies. They are ready to destroy our lives if we do not agree with them. They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects...