Word: ruthlessness
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...Jewish forces made full use of the massacre at Deir Yassin. John H. Davis, Commissioner-General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, blamed the exodus of Palestinians on measures ranging from "expert psychological warfare to ruthless expulsion by force." Deir Yassin provided the ammunition for such "psychological warfare...
That's a lot of glitz for a man universally described as low key, soft-spoken and unfailingly polite. But in a crunch he can be ruthless in taking a company apart. The company he is aiming at now is the one Iacocca spent the best years of his life preserving. "I've got 47 years of good reputation at stake," says Iacocca. "I don't want to be tainted as somebody who went in there for a quick buck." Even so, the quick bucks are a good bet. It's all the rest that...
...kinds of things" are exactly what flood the floor and corners of the Dunster House squash-court-turned-art-studio where the Onion Weavers meet. Two years ago, the club's foreparents, disgruntled by common casting's ruthless rejections, decided to band together and give their first fifteen-minute show "The Frogs," by Aristophanes. They left behind debris from a veritable Big Bang of puppetry: a frog clad in Dionysian grapes and toga hangs around in hope that he might still have a chance at a "recycled" role in a future show, and various black-swathed puppets left over from...
...Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories about his wife Wendy, a third-generation Korean American, who served as head...
...divide Americans from one another. And it would be swell if no politician ever suggested that an opponent was serving class interests that differed from those of the voters being addressed. But that is not the world we live in. In the real world, Republicans have been skilled and ruthless practitioners of class warfare themselves. "Us vs. them" has been the Republican theme in every recent election, and it has usually worked. Indeed, the current Republican ascendancy is a triumph of two kinds of class warfare...