Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sultan, and as the Sultan is in theory an absolute monarch, Marshal Lyautey is par excellence a beneficent despot. His word is law. Yet, he always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost respect to native traditions and beliefs. In that he is both brave...
...Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without relief for three interminable minutes. "Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless operations, when suddenly Loayzo began to hop about on one foot with the deranged, sickening absurdity of one whose mind and nerves have become disconnected. A towel flew from his corner; medical examination revealed that his ankle had been fractured. The decision, the World's Lightweight Championship, went...
...Burke, Dempsey's best sparring partner, in a round and a half of the third preliminary. He was so fast that he never lifted his hands from his sides to parry, struck with his wrists slack and whippy until the moment of impact. The beauty of his bright, merciless speed made grizzled gentlemen at the ringside mutter of Kid McCoy, of Jim Corbett. They heard that this Slattery was still growing. "Three years from date . . . ," they said...
...notes cover the whole blank margins of a page, sometimes running over onto the next one, with pungent criticism of the author's statements. Others are briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes "The merciless sport of the Gladiators must have had no little share in rendering the legitimate Tragedy insipid to the Romans. To obviate this the few Roman Tragic writers out-Heroded Herod, or deformed their dialogues into the epigrammatic...
...practices. Senor Agusto is said to be the handsomest president in Latin America. Numerous stories about his villainies are in circulation, some of which are untrue. He is, however, reputed to be the living incarnation of a mediaeval despot that rules his country by force and fear, being allegedly merciless to his enemies...