Word: callousness
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...Then have one of your black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
...statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral earnestness and underhand intrigue, between human sympathy and callous selfishness." Mr. Churchill also grills the whole U. S.: "The American populace fell as far short of their Chief in disinterested generosity to the world, as the peoples of the Allied countries exceeded their own leaders in severity to the enemy. . . . After immense delays and false hopes that only aggravated...
Unavoidably the Indians, who do most of Bolivia's fetching and carrying, are sunk in degraded peonage. The small ruling class of Spanish descent has but one callous, inevitable aim-to keep the Indians down. Last year some 50,000 peons, many half starved, attempted a desperate revolt. They were quelled by the bayonet. Official Bolivian despatches described the uprising as "Communistic...
...insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...
...battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least, the easily sown kernels of discontent. Governor McMullen feels that the farmers, asserting themselves before the Wall Street gang, can reap at least their political harvest, but the callous press of his native state unites in calling his aspirations fertilizer...