Word: cruelest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first place." Nor is it always wise for a therapist to intervene when he sees a child being badly treated, believes Psychiatric Social Worker Elizabeth Davoren, who took part in the Colorado study. "Protecting a child when you cannot continue such protection beyond the moment may be the cruelest thing...
...pushing through a stiff anti-fraud voting law aimed at the kind of ballot-box finagling for which Cook County is famous. Another Ogilvie-backed bill would make Chicago's mayoralty election nonpartisan; when candidates must run without official party labels, organizational control over them is weakened. The cruelest thrust against Daley is a proposal to reform Chicago's civil service system and thus wreck the giant patronage network that has maintained the Daley combine as one of the last of the oldtime machines. Ogilvie associates added to the mayor's woes last week by backing...
...down to four aircraft carriers, 21 postwar-built conventional submarines, three nuclear-powered hunter-killer subs, and four nuclear-powered missile submarines. "The Royal Navy," says Jane's, "has taken a cruel knock. It is hardly adequate for peacetime defense, and insufficient for war." Perhaps the cruelest knock of all was Jane's judgment that by the 1970s, if present plans are carried through, the French navy will be stronger than Britain's by a margin of two aircraft carriers and one nuclear sub. So much for the navy that William Blackstone, back in 1765, was able...
...Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
Monro said that Harvard sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks' recent characterization of Negro colleges as "academic disasters" was "the cruelest kind of phrase-making." "The violence of that rhetoric . . . added up to a kind of inhumanity and insensitivity which is all too characteristic of the way white people deal with the Negro people anyway." Monro acknowledged however that Reisman and Jencks "were trying to stir things up, and get people moving toward change...