Word: thoughtlessness
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...emancipation proclamation. They have come up from slavery to be prominent in education, the professions, art, science, agriculture, banking and commerce. It is estimated that 50,000 of them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination...
...thoughtless mob appeared suddenly to the Mitchells as the car passed the crest of a hill...
...brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control. But if the higher controls are injured or dulled, this emotional centre functions energetically. Thoughtless persons are subject to fits & fancies...
...better judgment than to publish such a statement as that one. We of the South have accepted Abraham Lincoln for the man that he was. We know our Jefferson Davis. History can show no blot upon his record, and such a comparison as that made by Representative Miller is thoughtless...
...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...