Word: ruthlessness
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...Castro said I would be dead by now." In his first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit to a new imperialism, more ruthless, more powerful and more deadly in its pursuit of power than any this hemisphere has known. We will build a wall around Cuba-not a wall of mortar or brick or barbed wire, but a wall of dedicated men determined to protect their freedom and sovereignty...
Clean Front. Dardi's downfall began in 1953 at a Manhattan cocktail party, where he met Lowell M. Birrell, a charming but ruthless looter of companies who has since fled to Brazil and is under indictment for fraud. Birrell was then in control of United Dye, but he needed someone to give him a clean front. He saw in Dardi qualities that he admired; for one thing, Dardi had been involved in some business deals with another Birrell crony, brilliant and amoral Financier Serge Rubinstein (who was later mysteriously strangled in his luxurious home on Manhattan's Fifth...
...road or another, many Marwaris have joined India's tiny crorepathis, or millionaire class. On the way there, they earned the dislike of their countrymen for their rough and sometimes ruthless pursuit of money. Unlike India's Parsees, who have provided the country with soldiers, administrators and artists, most Marwaris care little for civic improvements or municipal hygiene-they see no profit in it. Their indifference contributes to the neglect obvious everywhere in Calcutta, one of the world's most depressing cities; the wealthier Marwaris live in more pleasant surroundings in huge mansions on the city...
...voting for portly, pipe-puffing Wilson, a onetime Oxford don who draws most of his support from the left and was one of Hugh Gaitskell's archrivals, Labor M.P.s apparently had in mind not his ruthless opportunism but the fact that he, like Gaitskell, is a middle-class intellectual. By contrast with earthy George Brown, a plain-spoken lorry driver's son, many Laborites believe that Harold Wilson will have more appeal for middle-class voters, who have become increasingly disenchanted with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. An effective president of the Board of Trade for 3½ years...
...talk. Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune) who has sworn to avenge the murder of his father by the corporation. By a ruthless ruse-he has married the boss's daughter-the young man has placed himself inside the enemy's defenses. Can he get revenge before the corporation strikes? The suspense is terrific, but Kurosawa generates more than suspense. In his big boss (Masayuki Mori) he develops a masterly portrait...