Word: ruthlessness
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...normalization of relations with the People's Republic brings to full circle an extraordinary one-century course of American involvement in China. It is a history of passionate infatuation and ruthless exploitation, of missionary zeal and often of tremendous mutual incomprehension. The cycle started with the education in Hartford, Conn., of China's first foreign students in 1872. Eventually, as Dean Acheson wrote, "hardly a town in our land was without its society to collect funds and clothing for Chinese missions ... Thus was nourished the love portion of our love-hate complex that was to infuse so much emotion into...
...letters of Jones's followers show their awe and affection for him, even when they were uncomfortable with his actions. He looms over them not as an autocrat, but as a beneficent master. We may call him sick and ruthless, yet we must admit he held some uncanny attractiveness--and he hardly seems mad, at least not until his last days in Jonestown...
...yesterday, Jack. Yesterday the Crimson armada was sheer ruthless efficiency. Clean precision. The Dallas Cowboys. Death by the machine...
Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...
...thought to myself, why should I be so ruthless on the Dartmouth people? Why should I call them farmers just because the zip code of Hanover, N.H. is FIEIO? Why should I criticize their high school addiction to beer? Why should I harp on their school's incredible inferiority complex towards Harvard, Yale, New York, the Bronx, and Staten Island too? Why should I snicker about the school's female population, which, not counting the women who work in the dining hall, has yet to reach three figures? Why should I dwell on the fact that their football team suffers...