Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that he had been touched deeply by greatness and wore the mark of it with unconcern; not that he was the noblest friend of honesty and common sense and the ruthless foe of cant, unfairness, untruth and un-Americanism; not that he took always the most dangerous part for himself; not that he was a man of splendid human qualities; not for anything that can be set down in words, but for something to which his deeds and attributes and heroism all pertained--for himself we loved...
...aggrandizement of emperors or empires do not pay as they often did between the periods of Alexander the Great and Napoleon; the lesson that civilization virtually is a union of righteousness dominated by the principles of justice, humanity and freedom, and that upon these principles, and against the ruthless tenets and savage practices of the imperialism of ancient times and of the Middle Ages nations which are civilized can agree, and will co-operate successfully, even though some of them may be Christians and others believers in Buddhism, Mohammedanism or other religions. --Boston Transcript...
...true that since January 6 of this year there has been no single week in which the total losses of British ships have been equal to the average weekly number since the ruthless submarine warfare began. It is true also that Germany's threats of destroying British trade within a year have not been fulfilled, or anything like fulfilled. Nevertheless the figures now given as to the world's shipping show that the loss by submarines is serious; that the new shipping launched is not keeping up with the losses; and that the submarine will be a continuing menace until...
...mere accident that has made all the pro-German organs in the press clamor against the men who dare point out our shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed...
...often we have wondered why Germany, who exercised so vast a sway in the marts and the cloisters of the world before the war, should have cast aside the method of gradual but sure triumph for the ruthless one of gun and sword...