Word: heinously
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...could so callously desert his child and its mother . . . This certainly is a cockeyed world when military authorities will pry into the motives of one colonel for confessing to the use of germ warfare by American flyers in Korea and allow another colonel who is guilty of a heinous offense to go free...
...mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
Though stressing that nothing so heinous as an "intellectual haven" was intended the Dean's Office did not categorically deny the last charges Dean of the College. Francis B. Godolphin said that in his view, "Though there are no restrictions on leaving the campus you don't get full aspect of a Princeton education if you spend as much time as possible away from the University...
...attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed by individuals or by groups, remains uncovered because of the privilege against self-incrimination ... It is little wonder that law-abiding citizens frequently are heard to say that subversives and other wrongdoers are unduly coddled by law. They find it difficult to understand...
...answered in the affirmative, the political system under which the Review functions has profound similarities with that system the editors propose is the altar on which the eligible in question burns holy incense. The Review achieves in the field of its own forum the very result we agree is heinous--self-perpetuation by standards of conduct variable at will and without recourse. Robert Henigson...