Word: ruthlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Europe in the long years of war, defeat, inflation, revolutionary propaganda. That was what gave Hitler his chance. But modern National Socialism is the reassertion of the .strongest tradition in German and Prussian history-the belief in the all-powerful military state, creating order and discipline at home by ruthless Gestapo methods and expanding its wealth and power by ruthless conquest abroad. We have almost lost the capacity to understand that war and conquest can be regarded and preached as heroic and legitimate ends in themselves...
...intelligent, but they were turned aside alternately with facetiousness from Professor Seavey and with a threatening truculence by Professor Elliot, who attributed to his questioners the most discreditable motives. In both men there appeared a conscious insincerity that suggested they underestimated both the students and the war; and a ruthless and light-hearted belligerence, extremely disquieting to many who heard them and calculated to arouse the worst and discredit the best in undergraduate opinion...
These are the machine bosses of Mexico, tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...
Last week he was appointed High Commissioner to Syria and Lebanon, a job in which his ruthless efficiency would be appreciated by a Government facing revolt in its colonial possessions. Stocky, bald-headed Jean Chiappe immediately set out for his post by air. His plane passed over Corsica and Sardinia, winged on over the blue Mediterranean toward Africa. About halfway there Jean Chiappe got a bird's-eye view of British and Italian naval forces fighting a battle. Above the warships planes dodged and swooped in an air fight. One of them (British, according to the Italians) caught sight...
...pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost of Mounties, cut to ribbons by a ruthless attack of the Indians and half-breeds, hears the bugle of the approaching reinforcements. Lynne Overman, a Scotsman, ambushed with the struggling men, barks: "That will...