Word: hardheartedness
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The trend for the future, according to State Department Security Planner Lambert Heyniger, will be to design "smaller, less conspicuous buildings, possibly raised off the ground to make them that much more difficult for attackers to enter." Many new embassies have already traded aesthetics for security considerations. The new Swedish...
Indeed, for most of the book, McGee seems headed straight from Green to Black. A hardhearted trifler by inclination, Trav has fallen deeply in love this time around. Then Gretel, his live-aboard mate, dies a hot and horrible death, the victim of an inexplicable assassination. Desperate and half demented...
The ailing Mao grew increasingly helpless to halt his wife's machinations. When summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she...
Do the authors of The Final Days lack compassion? It is difficult to read the book without feeling some sympathy for the disgraced Nixon, no matter how thoroughly his wounds were self-inflicted. When he pleads, "Henry, please don't ever tell anyone that I cried and that I...
Said James F.C. Dugdale of his daughter: "I don't want to appear hardhearted, but I've done everything I can for her. She knows perfectly well she could turn to me if she wanted to." Her father's help may now be too late. If convicted...