Word: pitiless
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...wife (Irene Dunne), a Hollywood playwright, sets up light housekeeping in an extremely lightly assembled cottage near his Miami officer-candidate school; she sees him only spasmodically, when he sprints in, gasping for a change of socks and psychoses. Then the editor's boss (Charles Coburn), a pitiless character interested in nothing except steaming copy, adds his own kind of harassment, first by long- distance, later in person. Adding to the reeign of horror are the editor's commanding officer (Charles Evans) and his terrifying wife and mother-in-law. Dropping in one afternoon for cocktails, this formitable...
...Reader Falkenhorst read more carefully in the future. TIME [May 13, 1940] did not call him "master of land, sea & air." TIME said that the campaign he organized and led "was a masterpiece of organization as well as cunning surprise," that he "had proved himself a pitiless war lord." Said the caption under his picture: "He got there first-can he stay there last...
...shaky pillars of this baroque structure, the Fascist Grand Council, last week held its first officially announced emergency session since the night before Italy daggered France. It was followed by an order which was tantamount to total mobilization and a list of drastic reforms calling for "increased ruthlessness," and "pitiless elimination" of subversive activities. The hour for Fascism to pit its strength against the Allies was nearing...
...Stones. Expert trackers can follow a trail from horseback even across flat granite rocks and the pebbly "Gibber Country" of the interior. There is virtually no vegetation, but the trackers watch for displaced pebbles or almost invisible marks in the vestiges of moss burnt to dust by the pitiless...
...13th day of Wake's hopeless, gallant fight. For the first time since the Japanese had struck on the morning of Dec. 8, the bright, pitiless Pacific sky was dulled. Over that tiny speck of sand on the 167th meridian east of Greenwich the clouds hung mercifully low. Those Marines of the original 378 who were still on their feet worked with tight-lipped earnestness against the next attack...