Word: heinous
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...quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...
Certainly the prize for the most fantastic phenomenon of life thus far revealed by TIME is the brother-sister vow of the Roman Catholic Church. The exercise of reading the story left me breathless and trembling for quite some time. I nominate the vow for the title of "Most Heinous Crime Against Nature...
...heinous crime of the century, they call it. What about the Hungarian slaughter, the Americans murdered over the Barents Sea and Castro's atrocities...
...Japanese-who hold to the characteristically Oriental belief that if the majority of a group wants a rifle and a determined minority insists on no rifle, the proper solution is to get half a rifle-Kishi's entirely legal maneuver constituted a heinous sin known as "the tyranny of the majority." And to compound this offense, Kishi had so arranged things that, if the Diet were still in session, the treaty would automatically be ratified on the day of Dwight Eisenhower's scheduled arrival. To many Japanese this seemed entirely too much like truckling...
...HUMANITARIAN" CLAIMS THAT THE LONG DELAYS AND EXCRUCIATING NATIONAL PUBLICITY HAVE CAUSED SUCH SUFFERING AS TO EXPIATE ANY CRIMES, NO MATTER HOW HEINOUS, ISN'T THIS EXACTLY COMPARABLE TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO KILLED HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND ASKED THE JUDGE FOR MERCY ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE WAS AN ORPHAN...