Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke, his voice was hard. His hands kept clenching and unclenching; he thumped on the rostrum for emphasis and pointed his forefinger at his audience. He accused the steelmen of "irresponsible defiance of the public interest" and "ruthless disregard of their public responsibilities." There was, he insisted, "no justification for an increase in steel prices." Under the free-enterprise system, he conceded, wage and price decisions "ought to be freely and privately made. But the American people have a right to expect, in return for that freedom, a higher sense of business responsibility for the welfare of their country than...
...price-increase announcement. That reaction was instinctive, and Kennedy exploited it skillfully. But the popularity of Kennedy's cause, and the dazzling swiftness of his triumph, obscured the almost totalitarian thrust of his attack. In his press conference, the President accused the steel companies of being ruthless; by his own tactics, he made the steelmen look like Milquetoasts. He demonstrated in unforgettable fashion that any organization or group or person that thwarts him can bring down upon itself the overwhelming might of the Federal Government...
Just Plain Dick. Most of his opponents paint Nixon as a ruthless, calculating politician without an ounce of humanity in his soul. Yet there are numberless incidents in the book that show him as a lonely man who treasures tiny tributes as though they were sapphires. He recalls that in the midst of the Lima riots, just before Caracas, "Tad Szulc. Latin American correspondent for the New York Times, ran alongside the car saying, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President, good going. " In Moscow, immediately after his harangue with Khrushchev, "Ernie Barcella the correspondent for United Press International, came alongside...
...imagination was always its main weapon. Never has a minuscule army enlisted so many gifted poets, playwrights and novelists,* nor a colonial quarrel produced so rich a body of literature. By contrast with its gay and gallant image, in its later days the I.R.A. engaged in violence almost as ruthless and aimless as the Secret Army Organization's in Algeria, notably at the start of World War II, when its booby traps maimed and killed innocent civilians in England. But the S.A.O. men practice violence on a far larger scale, and besides, they do not write nearly as well...
...more important reason for Barak's ouster is that he enjoyed a personal following inside the party, unlike the friendless and ruthless Novotny. Furthermore, Barak was Czechoslovakia's only ranking Red leader untainted by a Stalinist past, and he probably advocated genuine destalinization. Obviously, if real destalinization had swept Czechoslovakia, Novotny-not Barak-would have been the first to fall...