Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst of all, a callous News Chronicle reporter suggested a recipe for rook pie.* So far, however, rooks were proving just as hard to hit as ever. As John Gay, another British poet, had put it: "To shoot at crows is powder flung away...
Some two weeks ago trainers pared a callous from the index finger of the pitching hand of Bill Connolly, the portly right-hander who was scheduled to be the number one hurler for Harvard this spring. The finger is now well enough for Connolly to use it again, but only if he is allowed to cover the tender spot with adhesive tape...
Geofirey White's analysis is frankly more cynical. To him it signifies "the beginnings of a new type of society," with Masaryk symbolic of bourgeois liberal opposition to "its conditions." To me, this statement exemplifies the callous disdain Communists held toward personal freedoms, and points up the careful hypocrisy with which they continue to use civil liberties in all democracies...
...What can be said about the refusal of the United States, at a period of peak employment, to open its doors even to the 400,000 carefully screened refugees for whom the Stratton bill would provide, or of our callous refusal to do more for the harried Jews than tell the Arabs and the British that they should immediately make room for them in little Palestine? Who can read the reports of the terms in which organizations like the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars . . . turned thumbs down on the Stratton bill without perceiving that something morally precious...
...philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit, many a pigeon just hasn't the guts to stay the distance. Others meet French lady friends on the way home and decide to give up racing. What burned the pigeon people was the callous remark made by London's Columnist Paul Holt. "Well," he asked, "would you come home...