Word: ruthlessness
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...Gamble. By ruthless intriguing, Quaife displaces an aging Minister and takes over the Cabinet portfolio that includes policymaking on the nuclear deterrent. By a considerable amount of flattery and deception he isolates the scientific enemies of his viewpoint, by wheeling and dealing he splits the industrialists who stand to lose lucrative defense contracts, and by magnetism and grit he puts together a precarious grouping of Cabinet members, senior civil servants and Tory backbenchers in support of a White Paper that outlines the first steps away from the nuclear arms race...
Moore is proud of being "ruthless" when it comes to protecting his dominion. He once got a local CORE group to cancel a demonstration by threatening to send a gang of girls through a CORE picket line. "You won't look very good fighting girls," he warned. And when a Harlem envoy came to Philadelphia to organize a rent strike, Moore gave the man 24 hours to get out of town. The man got. It was Moore who instituted the court battle to stop the city's famed New Year's Day Mummers Parade participants from wearing...
...when a group of army officers made their unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Fiihrer, Hitler had been in power for eleven blood-soaked years. Why, ask historians, had no other Germans ever conspired before to overthrow the dictator? True, as Terence Prittie notes, history's most ruthless tyranny had reduced the German people to "docility, dumb ignorance and wrong-mindedness." What few non-Germans realize, and few Germans fully appreciate, is that individual men and women never ceased to risk and lose their lives in opposition to Hitler's totalitarianism-ineffectually perhaps, but heroically nonetheless...
...militia uniform. "Oh yes, it was an old restaurant that used to grovel for Yankee dollars before the revolution. I never go there." A University of Havana student is almost euphoric in his fervor: "We are building a new Cuba. We must waste no time and we must be ruthless...
Ambitious & Corrupt. The thought of Rojas in power again is chilling to many Colombians. A tough and ambitious military man, he led a successful coup in 1953, soon became the model of the ruthless Latin American strongman-ruling by decree, censoring all newspapers, quashing political opposition. He lavished millions on the army, acquired at least nine ranches and generally proved so corrupt that a military-civilian coup sent him packing into exile in Spain in 1957. A year later when Rojas returned the government stripped him of his decorations and pensions, and barred him from voting or seeking office. Otherwise...