Word: cruelest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Sherri Finkbine: "It would be the cruelest thing in the world to let my baby be born with only a 50-50 chance of being normal. And I am concerned about our other children. How would it affect them? Some people think that what I want to do is wrong. If it would make them happy, we would be glad to start again next month and try to have a normal baby...
...carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...comment) in that they restored dramatically the spirits of a police force low in morale, bitter because of what it took to be still one more instance of political opportunism--at its expense, humiliated by sweeping public allegations against its professional honor: Integrity in the law. (Until proved, the cruelest allegation against a professor is sophistry; against a fighter, cowardice; against a policeman crime.) Cardinal Cushing's wisdom lay in restoring honor to the force, without which the force has no professional use. The limitation of his wisdom lay in the short-term, immediate nature...
Crudest and cruelest of the current reapportionment battles, however, was in California. Because population in ten years had increased by a whopping 48.5%, the state gained eight additional House seats, the largest pickup of any single state. In control of the legislature for the first time in seventy years. California Democrats lovingly reworked boundary lines. Their handiwork ensures that all eight additional seats will probably be filled by Democrats. So will three other, normally Republican, districts, where lines were re-formed to include decisive numbers of Democrats. California Republicans, who worked much the same gerrymander ten years ago when they...