Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What also hurt was the snubs and ruthless practical jokes with which most of the club members liked to torment him. Zanuck, who has never lost the fervor for practical joking that he acquired as a constant victim of it, recalls that the pranks were "not always too pleasant, too nice...
Babb has no delusions about the toughness of his new job. He knows that Lever Bros., caught napping in the booming field of detergents, had also been demoralized by Luckman's ruthless head-chopping, and had slipped competitively far behind Procter & Gamble (TIME, May 8). Said Babb bravely: "Some people hate being in a tight spot. They like things to go well and to be confronted with no difficulties. I like things hard." Nobody doubted that he would find them that way at Lever Bros...
...King's Men. Broderick Crawford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME...
...King's Men. Broderick Crawford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME.Dec...
...always, Churchill goes far beyond mere recording. Describing the ruthless German blitz of undefended Belgrade, before Hitler had turned on Russia, he writes: "Out of the nightmare of smoke and fire came the maddened animals released from their shattered cages in the zoological gardens ... A bear, dazed and uncomprehending, shuffled through the inferno with slow and awkward gait down towards the Danube. He was not the only bear who did not understand...