Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Street fighters from youth, terrorists half their lives, hardened and ruthless from years in prison, they are old at age 20. Because so many of the rebels, 406 of them, are locked in the H-shaped blocks of the Maze, they now believe they must win their war inside the prison, and that helps explain their astonishing defiance. But questions about them persist. Why are they so willing to starve themselves? How do they stand the pain? Are they afraid...
While the leftist groups can be just as ruthless as the right, they kill fewer people and choose their targets more selectively. The rightists, on the other hand, are likely to gun down anyone they consider ideologically "suspicious," including priests, teachers, students, journalists, labor leaders and liberal politicians...
...they're wrong: he is a working American moralist. He hates the cheap and the shoddy; the bad values, the bad art, the bad people. His hero, Travis McGee, who hates all of it for him, hates with intelligence, an acuity, and a ruthless...
...inspired only in spots." Once professors accept "human embellishments" in the Bible, Patterson contended, there is no logical place to stop, and Christians find themselves "cast on a hopeless sea of subjectivism." But Houston Pastor Kenneth Chafin, a moderate, called the inerrancy crusade nothing more "than a naked, ruthless reach for personal power...
...describes herself as a protege of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and she learned his ruthless style well enough to qualify as probably the toughest woman in American politics -"Attila the Hen," enemies call her. But Jane Byrne is a different sort of mayor. Daley gave Chicago two decades of predictability. Byrne has given Chicago two years of ceaseless, sometimes wacky, surprise. Daley believed in saying little, honoring promises, maintaining grudges. Byrne snaps out her feelings and shifts alliances without warning. Byrne has a whim of iron: in just two years she ran through four police chiefs, three planning directors...