Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justification for anyone, even the Archbishop of Canterbury, to put himself in the place of God," said Canon L. J. Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, and added that he would cease to be a Christian if he thought "that the God revealed in Jesus Christ is callous to the amount of suffering in the world ... It may be in the providence of God that we should blow ourselves up, but this does not excuse me or the Archbishop if we condone an evil policy, such as reliance upon nuclear weapons to defend our way of life...
...damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us. We even leaned on it, growing callous, and delicately picked out of the wreckage the bare essentials. the bitter wine that was needed to keep the evening going...
Mixed Gains. 1957's triumphs may not be permanent for Nikita Khrushchev. In the Middle East. Russia's callous manipulation of Syria for its own ends alarmed as many Arabs as it impressed. In the satellites, Poland's army is still restive. At home, the virgin lands Khrushchev plowed for grain are Russia's dust bowl; in 1957 they yielded a much lower harvest than the year before. At the same time that he promised a lot more housing and clothing, he boosted the goals of Communism's sacred heavy industry yet higher; by September he was forced to postpone...
These views hot up the collars of classic economists such as Dean Neil H. Jacoby of the business school of the University of California at Los Angeles. In the Harvard Business Review he called Slichter the exponent of a "defeatist school," which is coldly callous to the fact that creeping inflation has "pauperized countless retired and disabled American citizens" living on fixed incomes. Jacoby urges the Government to make its goal an "absolutely stable price level." This means stopping the wage-price spiral by tightening credit and reducing federal spending, leading to less buying, bigger inventories, production cuts, lower profits...
...disregard of ethics 'and morality by both labor and management. I've never met Beck, and I've seen him only once, but my reaction always has been colored by the way he first came to my attention. It was from a businessman who was so callous about the whole deal, who'd .lent his strength to Beck because Beck could deliver the goods...