Word: callousness
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...subject of this callous horse trading, it strikes me that we got the worst of the deal. What Yankee would take a permanently unemployed pilot for an intelligence agent who's willing and Abel...
Never was a victory more infamous and an aggression more callous. Coming from Mr. Nehru, the greatest protagonist of unilateral goodness and peace next to Jesus of Nazareth, this is the height of paradox...
Samurai v. Optimist. One of Toland's most effective devices is to flash from the misery of a hopeless battlefield to the wild unrealism of cables from Washington that demanded impossible resistance in high-flown language designed to impress world opinion. Commanders themselves could be dispiritingly callous: MacArthur, arriving safe in Australia as his troops made their last stand in Bataan, declared airily: "That's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash." Too often, the difference was between the dedicated professionalism of the samurai...
...where shelters can save lives, the University must act; and outside of cities, shelters are a realistic response to the very threat of nuclear war. Refusal to build is a callous gamble with life, an ill-considered unilateral step toward making America's nuclear deterrent useless...
...effusion of fireworks and ended their meeting in a miasma of self-congratulation. But to the U.S., which has given the nations represented at Belgrade more than $8 billion in aid since 1946, the neutrals' failure of nerve was deeply disappointing. It showed that Khrushchev's callous disregard for the neutrals' feelings had paid off. Big, bad Russia had, in fact, cowed them into appeasement. It also proved that, for all their lofty talk, the neutrals are chiefly committed to the profitable middle way-to preserving their "neutrality," at whatever cost of "principle," to keep the money...