Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...
...thought to myself, why should I be so ruthless on the Dartmouth people? Why should I call them farmers just because the zip code of Hanover, N.H. is FIEIO? Why should I criticize their high school addiction to beer? Why should I harp on their school's incredible inferiority complex towards Harvard, Yale, New York, the Bronx, and Staten Island too? Why should I snicker about the school's female population, which, not counting the women who work in the dining hall, has yet to reach three figures? Why should I dwell on the fact that their football team suffers...
...capture was the first major police break in the biggest man hunt in Italian history. Alunni, one of the most violent and ruthless of Moro's Red Brigades kidnapers, is also believed to have participated in the killings of Moro's five bodyguards, three police officers, two court officials and a newspaper editor. Though police had spotted him six weeks earlier, they refrained from making an immediate swoop. Instead, police in disguise kept him under constant surveillance. This classic counterespionage maneuver paid off. Just six hours after Alunni's capture, police picked up one more suspected...
...increasing number of scientists maintain that the forests are being slashed and burned at a perilous rate. This is being done both to extend agriculture and, especially in the impoverished developing countries, to use the wood as a fuel. By desiccating and destroying the land, the ruthless felling of trees has still another harmful side effect: it exposes rich topsoil, or humus, and allows the escape of CO2 formerly trapped...
...saga of blood and money, treachery and revenge, class injury and ferocious pride, is one of the most gripping stories in modern popular fiction. Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became a Pop father figure?a fascinating inversion of Walter Cronkite?whose distinctively throttled voice conveyed authority, sincerity and trust...