Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow-hardly an easy place to escape from. Foreign lawyers may supplement court-appointed Soviet lawyers, though purely as advisers. Soviet police are ordinarily quite tolerant of minor offenses, such as public drunkenness, but careless picture taking is bad medicine. Chary of national disgrace, the Soviet cops are ruthless in protecting tourists from thieves and swindlers...
...traditional right of American journalists to report what they see was at stake here, even though the situation was a particularly sensitive one; ambiguous involvement in a wretched war with a ruthless enemy. because the news was bad, there were many people who for varying reasons did not want it exposed. Yet an American reporter must believe, if he believes nothing else, that the United States has never sur- vived in times of crisis by playing ostrich. Too much policy and too deep a commitment had already been made in Vietnam on the basis of too little factual information...
Homosexuals infiltrate Her Majesty's Exchequer. Heterosexual backbenchers make hay with the P.M.'s daughter. The P.M.'s wife dosses down with her husband's brother. Ruthless press lords sow scandal and reap circulation. Ministers waffle and ministries totter, but merry England somehow muddles through and the parliamentary wits go right on making parliamentary witticisms: "The only advantage of being in the Lords is that you lose your constituents." In this as in his previous novels (Who Goes Home, The Minister), Maurice Edelman, Member of Parliament for North Coventry, pretends to tell the reader what actually...
Finally, he dashed off a letter to Whitney, charging that the article was false and libelous. "I urge you to stop its distribution," wrote Shawn. "I know exactly what Wolfe's article is-a vicious, murderous attack on me and the magazine I work for. It is a ruthless and reckless article; it is pure sensation-mongering ... In one stroke it puts the Herald Tribune right down in the gutter with the Graphic, the Enquirer, and Confidential...
...understand." All told, Eden preferred Joe Stalin, though he did not trust him: "Indeed, after something like 30 years' experience of international conferences, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice. Of course the man was ruthless...