Word: coldbloodedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Arnold Boult, Tracy misses much of the substance and savor of the role. His rages, his gaiety, his coldblooded urbanities lack the neurotic, compulsive tensions which made Boult what he was. Behind his big executive desk, Tracy is almost completely convincing but elsewhere-as in a sequence of sophisticated...
Last January, the New Republic had printed an article about Hill by Wallace Stegner, professor of English at Stanford University. It concluded: "Hill . . . was probably guilty of the crime [a coldblooded killing of two men] though I think the State of Utah hardly proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
"Coldblooded murder" was Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin...
The U.S. earthworm population is declining because farmers have been scraping away the nation's topsoil for generations. The five-hearted earthworm is coldblooded, cannot survive a sudden freeze. In free-plowed fields, where the earth is laid bare (and in entire areas, like the Corn Belt), earthworms die...
The Stalingrad Ratio. What is the reason for this striking contrast? The more I saw of Russia, the more I was convinced that it was because Russia's leaders put machines ahead of men, industrial recovery ahead of human recovery. Perhaps the clearest example of the coldblooded way the...