Word: coldbloodedness
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At Jackson, the local police, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, and the authorities proceeded with coldblooded efficiency born of long practice, using well-established administrative practices to cover up the wanton murder of blacks. As soon as the troopers had stopped firing, the Scranton Commission reported, they calmly picked up and...
Hannah Arendt opens her essay on violence by launching an attack on the think-tank methods of "scientifically minded brain trusters." The trouble, she points out, "is not that they are coldblooded enough to 'think the unthinkable,' but that they do not think."
The Germans were also slow in identifying the offending poison. Though nearly 50 German laboratories were reportedly making tests, it was the Dutch who first isolated the killer. The substance, they said, was a bug-paralyzing insecticide called endosulvan and marketed as Thiodan. A sulfurous acid ester, endosulvan is described...
Military Telex. The far different visage of a Biafra slowly starving to death is part and parcel of Ojukwu's coldblooded strategy for pleading the right of Biafra's secession to the world. The second most important military installation in Biafra?after the airstrip code-named "Annabelle"?is a...
Sir: TIME'S description of the massacre at Dak Son [Dec. 15] is the most moving and horrifying account I have ever read. Innocent civilians may occasionally be the victims of American bombing, but vicious, coldblooded, and calculated murderers, we are not.