Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming in on those first awkward, tense moments of families reunited. At times journalism is a ghoulish trade. A good many voyeurs in the audience, of course, would have been delighted to invade such a private moment, which is why the press does such things. Perhaps many in the press were relieved that matters had been taken out of their hands. Those scenes would have been filmed not because...
...picture of Lennon autographing his new album Double Fantasy for Mark David Chapman, the alleged killer, a few hours before his death brought more than $100,000 in worldwide syndication fees. In some cases, commercialism got out of hand and taste was trampled. The New York Post published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from 75? for a special Lennon edition, with an "exclusive" of "John and Yoke's last...
...with relief supplies were reportedly forced to wait 24 hours for clearance to enter the country. Local help encountered comparable problems. Some of the first rescue teams arrived little better equipped than the people they were sent to help. Eventually, shortages in the quake zone gave rise to a ghoulish black-market trade in everything from coffins to mineral water. The result was widespread bitterness, as Pertini discovered on Tuesday during an inspection tour of the stricken region. "How dare you stroll through here?" shouted a man digging through the rubble in Laviano as the immaculately dressed presidential party approached...
...perhaps a discreet warning for a first offense. But dissenters argue that given such an opening, every thief would quickly develop symptoms of kleptomania when caught in the act. Whatever effect Lady Barnett's death may have on the reform of shoplifting laws, some noncompulsive thieves added a ghoulish touch to the debate: while members of her family were attending a memorial service, thieves broke into Lady Barnett's manor house near Leicester and stole $14,400 worth of silver...
...Brothers fear that like some sort of ghoulish Star Trek villain MIT will snatch them from behind and suck all of the life juices from their bodies. If they don't stay armed, beer mug in one hand, Simmons woman in the other, and stick together, they might be picked off one by one, left to rot in nurd purgatory. So they help each other out, getting the pledges dates, reminding a careless eager beaver that he's spending too much time under the high-intensity bulb with his organic chem models, and generally by being unnaturally cheerful...