Word: ruthlessness
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...most ruthless creature in professional sports, and I'm one, so yesterday morning when I read about Jim Rice I reacted as though someone had died. Jim Rice is not dead, ofcourse--he's just caked up in a cast for a month or two, through the remaining week of the regular season, through the possible American League Playoff, through the possible World Series and the possible apocalypse in Boston which would follow a victory there. That's all. He's not dead, but for me he might as well...
...name or genially sponsoring a young boy as ambitious as he himself once was--it's hard to see how he could have made as much money as he is supposed to have. Nice people don't get rich, in this country or anywhere, and Lassiter is far from ruthless...
...series of memorable court actions, Hoffa fought duels with the forces of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, whose will matched his own and who finally succeeded in jailing him. "A ruthless little monster," Hoffa called his pursuer, while Kennedy denounced the Teamsters as "hoodlum-controlled...
...Communist Party boss has also paid frequent lip service to democracy and emphasized a pragmatic reform program to bring all Portuguese "a better life." Although this moderate stance is probably only a ploy, Cunhal has been able to take much of the edge off his own reputation as a ruthless Stalinist. Even the least sympathetic officers have been impressed by the Communist Party's discipline, its effective organization and-perhaps above all-its loyal collaboration with the military. Only rarely does Cunhal drop his guard and publicly deride parliaments, elections and democratic freedoms...
Giving LSD to someone without his informed consent opens the door to the "ruthless modification of people's minds," declared Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association, after he heard the circumstances of the suicide of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Even if done for security reasons, added Marmor, such experiments as those conducted by the CIA are unethical...