Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners for their operations, but leave the owners unharmed and deposit the cars scattered over the city when they no longer need them. They make it clear that they will kill if necessary but they are also smart enough to realize that their ends are not served by the wanton destruction of either lives or property...
...version. He had come to Viet Nam a "superhawk," but changed when con fronted with the cavalier shooting of villagers from U.S. helicopters ("like herding cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax money, the wanton burning of villages, and the deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water. "If you took a coin, you could scrape...
...resolution reads, in part, "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences expresses its revulsion at the terrorist bombing inflicted last December by the government of our country, and condems all the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages that our government has caused in Indochina for the past eight years...
...Apley was first published it was appreciated for its humor and satire. But since 1936 the world Marquand lampooned has passed away and so the satire is left without a target. While it is still amusing that George Apley "looks the other way" when passing what he considers the wanton materialism of the Harvard Business School, a modern Apley would be more tolerant of man's vanity...
...although you might think it is the Gem of Egypt [May 15]. In man's great haste to realize greater productivity, we shamelessly gouge 80-ft.-deep chunks of valuable land from the earth. Are the few dollars saved by this method of coal mining actually worth the wanton destruction of our environment? I don't think...