Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been launched in politics in 1946 by Newark Democratic Boss Dennis Carey, who was in search of a congressional candidate. "I figured," Carey once said, "that I needed a guinea with a name that long." Addonizio, a much-decorated war hero, met Carey's callous specifications. Carey delivered the nomination, and Addonizio edged out the incumbent Congressman by fewer than 1,800 votes. En route to an eighth congressional term, Addonizio amazed friends and opponents when he gave up his safe seat in the House to make the race for mayor of Newark. He won, mocking an opponent...
Draft lawyers are quick to defend their motives. Many feel that peacetime conscription is unjust, unnecessary and unAmerican. They are convinced that draft boards are often callous, bureaucratic, discriminatory-and usually ignorant of the law. Under the circumstances, they argue, a young man is perfectly justified in hiring a lawyer to protect his rights...
Indian history is notoriously full of broken covenants, callous horse soldiers and greedy land-grabbers-all encouraged from Washington. Though Vine Deloria dwells on such things with savage wit in this remarkable book, he is more bitterly concerned with the recent past and the havoc worked among the long-suffering tribes in the past 20 years by less officially baneful agencies-compassionate missionaries, humane anthropologists and liberal bureaucrats. Their doings, says Deloria, justifiably provoked a Sioux leader to tell a congressional hearing that what the Indians really want is "a leave-us-alone...
...Vietnam in a dilemma. We are aware of the fragmentation of the peace movement, and of the resolutions, slogans, tactics tried out in our desperation. Some strategies may be futile but harmless. But others may backfire. A call for immediate withdrawal will seem cavalier to some and callous to many; it is not a call for a cease-fire. Already the President is taking account of violent feeling among many civilians and some senior and junior officers that the fighting men are being betrayed...
Believing the committee to be a "vehicle for communication," Pusey has handled the formation of the committee in his own inimicably callous style...