Word: callousness
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...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth...
More and more U.S. doctors are resorting to just such callous measures, as they learn a bitter lesson: medicine is an inexact science, but there is little room for error as far as the courts are concerned. One in every seven U.S. physicians, says the American Medical Association, has been sued for giving treatment that a court may decide is contrary to accepted rules and injurious to the patient. Last year alone, 6,000 doctors were sued. Jury awards in malpractice suits have nearly trebled since 1950; lawyers' fees, court costs, damages and out-of-court settlements in last...
...opponent, said the Senator, is callous about men out of work. "Unless unemployment goes over 4.5 million," Kennedy quoted Nixon as saying, "It doesn't become a significant issue in the minds of a great many people...
...Brigadier General Don Flickinger, Air Force chief of bioastronautics. Flickinger taught that the 10,000-lb. spaceship might be capable of carrying a two-man crew, but he did not believe it was actually carrying a living man. The Russians, he said, have become quite sensitive about being called callous and they would not send a man into space without a good chance of getting him back...
...same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...