Word: inhumane
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...liberated, divorced heiress, she reads books, drinks milk and doesn't like football. She rides horses and spends half her day combing their backsides. But she's just as phony, just as much of a lie as Jane Fonda in Tall Story or Talia Shire in Rocky. Inhuman, frightening, vacant--beautiful...
...today more than 1 billion human beings in the developing countries whose incomes per head [adjusted for inflation] have risen only about $2 a year: from $130 in 1965 to $150 in 1975. But what is beyond the power of any set of statistics to illustrate is the inhuman degradation the vast majority of these individuals are condemned to ... Malnutrition saps their energy, stunts their bodies and shortens their lives. Illiteracy darkens their minds...
Although we did not take part in the boycott of classes today, this does not mean that we do not care about Harvard's reaction to an apartheid system that the Harvard Corporation itself has labelled "repugnant and inhuman." We are not convinced that immediate divestiture is the most effective means of exerting a force for change in South Africa; and, for this reason, we cannot support an action with immediate divestiture as its stated goal...
...Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said he had told Khomeini, "You are making us desperate. At least you could consult us before you issue orders...
Prison officials used sophisticated methods of psychological control to compel obedience and prevent escapes, the men say. These officials reduced the number of guards needed by telling the prisoners their families would suffer arrest and torture if the prisoners misbehaved. "The most inhuman torture in not to torture the prisoner himself but to torture his relatives in front of him," Toai notes. With this psychological pressure in force, Hieu says, prison doors stayed unlocked, and only one or two guards patrolled the area, which used neither barbed wire nor other security precautions...