Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
...family plate and gems were unearthed and divided at the onetime Dolgorukovo estate near Kursk. Then the Soviet official produced a whistle, blew, summoned agents of the secret police who seized Prince Dolgorukovo. Last week he was executed by order of the Soviet Cabinet in the Lubianka prison, Moscow. Callous, the Soviet executor merely walked into the room where stood Prince Dolgorukovo, drew a revolver, and shot him, without preliminaries, in the back of the head. Soon the corpse of Prince Dolgorukovo was flung into a cart with those of 18 executed criminals, dumped with these into a common grave...
...which the Government's attitude toward Communism in industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
Well, then, all right, the mask will be donned again. Joe Forecast, the man, will return hidden behind the Night of Joe Forecast, the forecaster. No more will he reveal to a callous public the bruise an his heart and the sears on his soul...
...Last week Archbishop Ruiz arrived at Mexico City, galvanized the indignation of even callous newspapermen with news of an atrocity. Five Catholic priests, declared Archbishop Ruiz, had been seized in the state of Michoacan by troops under command of General Mange. The priests were charged with inciting the populace to riot, were marched without trial to the Hacienda La Gua Yaba, were lined up against a stone wall and shot down by a firing squad...