Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress?and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate American politics...
...books on Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bishop offers some inside glimpses: J.F.K. changing clothes from the skin out five times a day. L.B.J. inviting Bishop for a shower-side interview and then going to hilarious lengths to conceal his private parts, the callous behavior of the white medical examiners who conducted the autopsy on Martin Luther King's body...
...health. It was also there that he started working on his detective stories--the most famous of which, the Continental Op stories--were to make him a wealthy and famous man. The Continental Op, of course had all the qualities of a Great American Hero. He was cynical, callous, and streetwise. He was always making seedy jokes, but he harbored the heart of the romantic. Hammett's Op never had a name, but you could never forget the voice. In some ways he was the last bastion of defense for the innocent. Beautiful women, chivalrous old men--they all lived...
...government, Georgakas writes, is guilty of outright lying about the hazards of living near nuclear plants, and of callous insensitivity to government employees whose health was irreparably damaged by exposure to nuclear wastes, among them the army units dispatched during the 1950's into radioactive zones in a bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident...
Responding to the attack, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared bitterly: "I hope that when [the soldiers'] murderers have been tried and convicted, no one will claim that they are entitled to special privileges . . . for having done cold, callous, brutal murder." Though opposition M.P.s have begun calling for a more flexible approach to the Northern Ireland problem, Thatcher's tough stance on the prison protest still had strong backing from the British public: in a recent poll, only 4% believed that the prisoners should have political status...