Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest pilfers a prized gewgaw from the breakfast tray? A few days after Hostess Post's loss at her country home, a discreet item appeared in the local newspaper, touching on the "unpleasant situation" and appealing gently for its correction by "the person, perhaps young and certainly thoughtless, who yielded to impulse...
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David E. Lilienthal and General Lucius D. Clay shared the 1949 Freedom Award. Said Freedom House President and onetime Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "Each has had to overcome almost insurmountable obstacles, thoughtless opposition and totalitarian pressures...
...they are frequently relieved by Novelist Compton-Burnett's most characteristically brilliant qualities. There are flashes of darting spite ("I hope I am not disturbing you at your luncheon, Mrs. Cassidy." "Thank you, Miss James. It is so kind to cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice, and though she regretted [her stepson...
Finger-shaking is not liable to influence the thoughtless characters who life these exams. It is up to the library to find a system of protecting the exams from theft as well as making specific exams more easily accessible. When Lamont gets settled, perhaps the problem could be transferred there. The exams could be filed alphabetically at the reading desk. And since the exams do not come on uniform-sized paper, it would be convenient to paste the exams on cardboard sheets. Anyone who wanted to look at an exam could sign for it. The bound copies of finals ought...
Said the Frankfurter Nene Presse: "Here is a hope for survival ... It is earnestly and with reason hoped that this will kill the thoughtless and irresponsible rumors of coming military conflict." A Munich housewife: "At last we will be permitted to play a German fiddle in this world orchestra." A Frankfurt photographer: "Here is one thing the Russians cannot veto...