Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jiang Qing, of course, wanted to be named Premier to replace Chou Enlai. She named as Minister of Health Liu Xiangping, one of those ruthless women who abound in Chinese history. Liu was not only ignorant of medicine but devoid of decencies. She made the hospitals of the capital hostels of despair. Few could escape her clutch. Old veterans and ranking bureaucrats pleaded not to be sent to the hospitals from which they feared they would never emerge alive. They were told it was the will of the party and off they went. Liu Xiangping was the wife...
Your article on Castro's prisons summarizes quite well some of the terrible atrocities committed by the Cuban dictator and his regime. However, it is only a glimpse of the ruthless methods being applied by Communist rulers around the world to attain and maintain their power. Let us be aware of what is occurring to mankind and start doing something about...
...event of a tragedy like that of Flight 007, including the admission of responsibility and the undertaking of steps to ensure that it never happens again. For its part, the Soviet Union is simply "lying-openly, brazenly and knowingly. It is the face of a ruthless totalitarian state." Ovinnikov, declaring the session "unjustifiable," proceeded to read the TASS account of the episode to delegates...
...Avraham Stern formed an even more bellicose splinter group, the Lohamei Herut Israel (Israel Freedom Fighters) in 1940, Shamir promptly enlisted and began acting on Stern's assumption that Zionism's principal foe was not Germany but Britain. He soon became a leader of the notorious, sometimes ruthless "Stern Gang," which in 1944 assassinated the British resident minister in Cairo, and is believed to have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew a full beard...
...ruthless romanticism-the kind that can curdle into narcissism if the sun shines too long on it-gives his records some of the trappings of a visionary quest. Indeed, Rock Critic Paul Nelson has described Browne as a sort of rock-'n'-roll Sir Gawain. Browne never wears much armor-vulnerability is a great part of his appeal, both as a writer and performer-but in the past he would sometimes get knocked right off his high white horse by the density of his subject matter...