Word: ruthlessness
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Oilless Flame. As politician, Macmillan made many enemies, for he was ruthless, Machiavellian and completely cold blooded in pursuit of his policies. But as a great parliamentarian, an unswerving patriot, and a man of courage, vision and humor, he will be long remembered. For the future, Macmillan intends to devote some of his time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight...
...Damned. Half a dozen bright, attractive but inexplicably fey youngsters take refuge in an abandoned London church, where strange things begin to happen. What's to be done? "Destroy them," say British authorities. Officials of the U.S., Indian, Red Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes a ghastly weapon...
...book offers a small fillip of fable. Spies in the West, where individual life is held precious, vaguely hope that a just cause may absolve a man from responsibility for violence. But in the end Le Carré's secret agents, on both sides, are themselves as ruthless as the acts they perform. Few of them face the fact. In their world, Le Carré suggests, half of staying alive depends on staying numb...
...With ruthless force the new life forces out the old. After 36 hours of it, the young man suddenly feels empty, light, free: free of the past, free of his own galling limitations, free of his existence even, free as a bird and like a bird he longs to spread his wings and fly, fly! "Faster!" he shouts into the shouting wind. "Go faster!" The playboy, catching his mood, laughs with a mad demonic exultation and pushes the pedal to the floor. Ninety, a hundred. "Faster!" Laughing, the playboy swings out to pass...
...minutes-have lasting value, Leahy reckons. The rest can be discarded periodically so long as the owner observes a complexity of 1,000 regulations laid down by the Federal Government. Armed with these regulations-and a psychologist's understanding of corporate mentalities-Leahy's teams weed with ruthless skill, often removing as much as 70% of a company's records. The higher an executive the more of his records Leahy retains, on the principle that even insignificant slips of paper may be important to a top man. A piece of out-of-town hotel stationery, for instance...