Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to his sagacity and his apparent incompetence, Claudius came unscathed through the ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy...
Werning the United States that Germany is on its way from the ruthless control of Adolf Hitler to a military dictatorship which might he accompanied by the selection of one of the Hoh-enzollern family as sovereign, Colonel Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and the Manchester Union, Leader, voted another criticism of the German government...
...mute procession the other changes that have been brought about within the University since September. It remains to be seen whether or not the steps are in the right direction but the usual rumblings of University machinery have been absent. The shelvings and the appointments have been perpetrated with ruthless composure...
...born a Jew, I am a Jew, and I shall die a Jew," Otto Kahn once exclaimed. But there was German blood in his veins, a German accent in his speech, and two Otto Kahns before the world. By day he was Otto Kahn the banker-shrewd, suave, sometimes ruthless. The last time he made news in that capacity was when he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July...
...country, is the background; in the foreground are the farmers, the business men, the politicians, the farm laborers and factory workers, who made and were made by the development of the state. Beneath it all there is this theme: "Progress" results from the efforts of self-reliant, ambitious, ruthless men and women, those who keep an eye on the main chance and let nothing stand in their way; more kindly, less certain souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there is no Eden without...