Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Castro Cubans into the Bay of Pigs and thus bore a heavy responsibility for protecting their lives and assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro was as bad as he is, would be outraged by his callous offer to trade human lives for machines (see THE HEMISPHERE). And so, Kennedy called Eleanor Roosevelt and Reuther, both of whom were fairly obvious candidates for such a committee. Seeking a Republican, he tried a couple, finally landed Milton Eisenhower...
...Western country (New York City alone has more school administrators than all of France) and less national status (in Russia since Peter the Great, high school principals have had civil service rank matching army generals). The wonder is not that "every school system has its hard-faced bitches, its callous routiners, its cynical slobs, its politicians, its lazy and indifferent time servers.'' The striking thing is that "teachers by and large are good people...
...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth...
More and more U.S. doctors are resorting to just such callous measures, as they learn a bitter lesson: medicine is an inexact science, but there is little room for error as far as the courts are concerned. One in every seven U.S. physicians, says the American Medical Association, has been sued for giving treatment that a court may decide is contrary to accepted rules and injurious to the patient. Last year alone, 6,000 doctors were sued. Jury awards in malpractice suits have nearly trebled since 1950; lawyers' fees, court costs, damages and out-of-court settlements in last...
...opponent, said the Senator, is callous about men out of work. "Unless unemployment goes over 4.5 million," Kennedy quoted Nixon as saying, "It doesn't become a significant issue in the minds of a great many people...