Word: heinousness
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...this does not, by any means, justify the bill itself, which is drawn up according to a very dangerous and undemocratic principle. Ever since the Civil War, perhaps before, politicians and pinks have had a feeling that business men were committing heinous crimes, continually breaking the law, but that they always managed to get away with it through the cleverness of their lawyers, who found holes through which any octopus could jump...
...came to its end. The prosecutor called the case ' unparalleled in the annals of crime in India in its enormity and well-planned scientific design . . . diabolical ingenuity.' Benayendra Pandey and Dr. Taranath Bayttachra were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy. Barked the judge: "The murder is too heinous to warrant clemency...
...Many heinous things are done in the name of sport, but nothing is more so than rating rodeos as Sport [TIME, Oct. 22]. They are, in the main, the most degrading, disgusting, diabolical display of cruelty that in modern times has been staged...
...while foreign furore grew. Suddenly last week the Hitler Youth discovered that August Hoppe had "falsely posed as the Hitler Youth press chief." It was further discovered that Hoppe had been expelled from the Hitler Youth. In a final effort to appease Christians, Pagan Hoppe was berated for his "heinous attacks on Christianity," and ordered to desist for one month, during which time his pagan organ Nordland was suppressed...
...insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that he was himself the father of four daughters. He wound up by announcing that there was "something wrong" with any other father who did not also enjoy the electrocution of such a malefactor as Charley Dumas...