Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court in Washington disallowed his claim, deducing from its reading of the play that "portrayal of petitioner"-he was "portrayed" for a few moments as a child of seven-"certainly did not effect any wanton appropriation of petitioner's name or personality...
...There are no public supporters for this wanton destruction except the politicos who initated [it]. There are no beneficiaries... except the contractors, asphalt and other industries which will benefit from destructive construction of a chinese wall to separate the people from their river's banks," the telegram charged...
...informed public opinion opposed to the wanton throwing away of taxpayers' money and opposed to encroachment on play and recreation areas is expressing itself throughout the state and should be potent in bringing about reversal of the legislation," Bernays said...
...nearby Groton. Conn., Johnson was the Great Peace Seeker, warning against the rash use of military might. In an obvious crack at his probable November opponent, Barry Goldwater, Johnson said: "Those who would answer every problem with nuclear weapons display not bravery but bravado, not wisdom but a wanton disregard for the survival of the world and the future of the race...
...assured Danes that Sculptor Edvard Eriksen's 50-year-old mold had been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid is immortal, a creature of foam and sky. If tears were to be shed, they should be for the vandal-or, as Hans Andersen put it, for the "naughty child. And each tear adds a day to the time of our trial...