Word: callously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy sweated on, under a rain of callous suggestions from the Army and Air Force. Old hands wondered aloud how the Missouri had strayed nearly half a mile from the channel, and a board of inquiry was named to find out. Experts, reporters, and the merely curious pointed and peered at her exposed underbody. At week's end the Navy gave up, announced dejectedly that they would try again at the next spring tide in February. Every night, for all to see, two red lights hung at the Missouri's yardarm. They indicated that the ship was aground...
...Democrat. Cincinnati was in the hands of a callous, blatant Republican machine. Sawyer put on a crusading campaign and won his seat in a ward that was normally Republican. Four years later the Democrats ran Sawyer for mayor. But that time a Republican opponent twice his age snowed him under by the biggest majority a Cincinnati mayor had ever piled up, and Sawyer went back...