Word: ruthlessness
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...more personal terms, events were passing him by. Kennedys are supposed to stand for courage; the antiwar parade marshaled by a lonely Gene McCarthy was trampling that profile. To be accused of being both gutless and ruthless would be too much. Gradually, he came to the chilling conclusion that if he did not move now, he would grow old in the Senate, for which he has little love, or in private life, in which he has little experience...
...hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine and slightly Mephistophelean, invariably comes off best...
Loan's act caused little stir in Sai gon, where for two years the general has waged a ruthless, successful campaign against street terrorists. His fellow student in pilot-school days and longtime sponsor in government, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, dismissed the incident with little more than a shrug. But the execution aroused sharp world opinion, and raised a question that has concerned the U.S. since it took on the Viet Cong: How should prisoners in a guerrilla war be treated...
...that Galbraith, with most people anyway, enjoys being thought arrogant, just as some people find odd pleasure in being thought ruthless or mean. Galbraith, says Buckley, "always gives the impression that he is on very temporary leave from Olympus, where he holds classes on the maintenance of divine standards...
Dossiers & Photographs. The city dwellers learned in the Communist offensive what South Viet Nam's peasants have long recognized: the Communists' ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as well as police and government officials and their families. In Saigon, a band of Viet Cong seized several civilians, including a Korean newspaperman and the information officer of the Korean embassy, blindfolded them and summarily shot them in a Cholon street...