Word: inhumane
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Recently, the society forced London stores to stop filling orders for lion cubs and other exotic pets by charging "cruel and inhuman treatment." Though it regards fox hunting as a "humane" way of keeping the vulpine population from overrunning Britain's farms, the society is waging war on other "blood sports." At R.S.P.C.A. urging, Prime Minister Harold Wilson last month inveighed in the Commons against setting greyhounds after a live hare as a "barbarous anachronism...
Heimert called the treatment which the students had accorded May "inhuman." He asked whether Margolin meant by previous statements that "by being a public figure, by being dean of Harvard College, he [May] automatically can expect to be harassed...
...inflation, suppress bandits and warlords, rehabilitate industry and the transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...
Terrence McNally, another funny playwright, is the author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...
...Grand Kabuki illuminates the paradox in the Japanese character, an outward decorum of almost inhuman restraint masking an inner fury of almost demonic feelings. Out of this tension the Japanese fashioned the peculiar beauty of their drama, rather like the Greeks, whose tragedies distilled the moral of "nothing in excess" from a people capable of nothing but excess...