Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Avoidance of military service is sometimes the most responsible way to respond to a war one believes to be unjust: remember, combat involves not only being brave enough to die for one's country but also being ruthless enough to kill...
...element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them," he once said), but he was the indispensable man who brought radio to the mass audience. Together, their lives illustrate a seldom-told story: how creativity and commerce...
Christopher Columbus, hero of 1492, came under attack as a ruthless invader. A bad year, all in all, for dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...
...help the reader in the transition from sung to read, Reed often includes small biographical or explanatory footnotes for the songs. These in themselves give one the impression of a ruthless self-assessment taking place on the page, and they convey the seriousness of the task at hand...
...victim -- unlike the Kopechnes, who did not criticize the Kennedys until the 20th anniversary of the drowning -- knows its way around the legal system and has the money to pay for it. The difference is that the prosecutor, Moira Lasch, has a near 100% conviction rate and is as ruthless as any lawyer the Kennedy family ever hired. She watched seven years ago as her boss David Bludworth, the lead investigator of David Kennedy's mysterious drug overdose, was reprimanded by a judge for being "governed by what the Kennedys want...