Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consequence that his family endures poverty and suffering and he earns for himself the cordial hatred of the whites wherever he goes. The final tragedy is striking and effective, leading through the stages of discouragement, unjust injury, a murder of desperation; and finally insanity to the sudden and merciless reprisal discharged through the rifles of the whites...
Under Haughton's leadership the Harvard elevens became incarnations of smooth power and merciless efficiency that crushed all opposition. Evolving a complicated system of hidden ball plays, which were revolutionary in American football, Haughton uncovered the system which was the envy and despair of every coach in the country. Even after his coup in the 1908 encounter, it was four years before he scored over Yale, but minor victories came thick before this...
...merciless person; hundreds of persons have fled for their very lives, to this coun- try, because of the fear with which they held O'Higgins. I do not think there will be any political effect but I do think that sheer fear caused a group to determine to kill him as the only means of safety...
...spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them two bags, each bag containing a cat and they were followed by a bulldog. A circle was formed, a cat was then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment indulged in by the curled darlings of the nation' a lady appeared who expressed her contempt of such specimens of humanity. Both animals were torn and bleeding, the cat being too much...
...proceeded in this fashion, but eventually the all grew so thick that we could not see a camel's length before us, and were forced to make the panting Meharis kneel. What a storm that was! The wind scoured our faces, hands, and any other exposca parts, with a merciless rain of flying sand, filling the pockets of our clothes, my pockets rather, and the deme with minute particles. So fine was that dust that I afterwards removed a generous supply from beneath my watch crystal, which is generally dust proof...