Word: ruthlessness
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...Boswells are not always so enamored of their subjects. "I thought I was going to love Lyndon Johnson," says Journalist Robert Caro. "I knew he was going to be shrewd and tough and ruthless, but that was all right." Caro, 47, a former investigative reporter, should have known better. The Power Broker, his 1,200-page study of New York's urban-development and highway czar Robert Moses, so unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page...
...difficult trek was made even more so by the Nigerian police, who gassed and beat some of the expatriates. This ruthless display of xenophobia convinced several who were technically exempt from the sweeping decree that they too should leave...
...From everything I know," he says, "Andropov is a smarter, more imaginative breed of Soviet leader. While he's a ruthless, dedicated Communist, he's realistic enough to know that the Soviet Union is in desperate shape internally and that it's suffering from acute international indigestion. It has taken big bites out of Afghanistan and other countries, but it hasn't been able to digest them. It's paying the cost of conquest in Poland, Cuba and Viet Nam. The system has been an abject failure at home and has no appeal abroad...
...certain touch of distance and even mystery; he is also expected to be "human." F.D.R. and Ike set a high standard. The aloofness of a De Gaulle would not sit well in the U.S. He needs courage, physical (just to go outdoors) and moral. He must be tough, even ruthless, but not find sick enjoyment in ruthlessness. He needs a deep self-confidence, stopping short of a grandiose sense of destiny...
Although only 62 people participated in the Dudley House vote that elected him a large segment of the campus is familiar with Evans his positions are unmistakable and his campaign integrator is everywhere. "Grandiose are the conceptions Ruthless is their execution!" one poster boldly declares. "Vote Evans, As inevitable as the forces of history urges another. "One world, one constitution, one leader" reads a third...