Word: ruthlessness
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...said publishers' lists of unacceptable "sexist" terms were part of a 'ruthless Gestapo-like" censorship movement, but later defended her participation in the campaign to end violence and sex on television as an exercise of her First Amendment rights...
...species of cactus,* all of which are natives of the Western Hemisphere, have been coveted by European collectors since 1777, when a Spanish botanical expedition brought back specimens from Peru. The Germans, Japanese and Americans are considered the most avid-and ruthless-collectors. In March 1979, a group of West Germans returning from a "botanical study" tour of Mexico were found to have 6,000 cactus specimens-many belonging to a dozen threatened species...
...places among the Buddhist Japanese. By 1600 there were nearly 300,000 converts. But the church's fortunes soon ebbed. Four thousand of the new Christians were martyred in Nagasaki and elsewhere. Some were decapitated, some executed in scalding-hot springs by shoguns and local lords. The ruthless persecution continued over the centuries. Officials forced suspected believers to tread on Christian images. In some places an annual oath renouncing Christianity was obligatory. One reminder of the past: at least 7,000 kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians) persist even today in practicing an odd form of Catholicism, just as their ancestors...
That moment captures both the truth of, and the lie about, the conflict in El Salvador. The truth is that the repressive Salvadorean Government, enriched by American money and empowered by American weaponry, has embarked on a ruthless campaign of torture and death against its own people. The lie is that the violence begins with the revolutionaries. Russian-nudged troublemakers who are polarizing tranquil El Salvador...
...madness is missing from Anderman's mad scene. Nothing in Anglim's countenance suggests that he has "supp'd full with horrors " But the political core of the play remains intact. Macbeth is a politician's tragedy. It is full of the cagey schemes and ruthless deeds by which men seek to attain and hold power, and of the cruel downfall which they court...