Word: ruthlessness
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Robert Kennedy. "Bobby was a ruthless [characterization omitted...
...circulation weekly magazine. He went on to build a profitable publishing and television conglomerate and in 1972 sold his two largest newspapers, the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America's Cup in 1962 and 1970 as prompted by "an excess of champagne and delusions of grandeur...
Speakers also demanded the ousting of President Nixon. "May Day celebrations have always focused on issues of importance to the working class," Jharad said. She labeled Nixon a representative of the "ruthless, racist, fascist order which oppresses the working class...
...nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...
...band of ruthless armed men was on the loose in southern Illinois last April. In half a dozen raids, the men broke into private homes, shouting obscenities and roughing up the terrified occupants. Mrs. Pamela Kaye Gitto of East St. Louis has charged that the men pointed a gun at her sleeping six-year-old son and struck her husband while he was handcuffed to a chair. Herbert and Evelyn Giglotto of Collinsville were handcuffed face down on their bed. While Mrs. Giglotto begged for her husband's life, she claims that the intruders ransacked their bedroom...