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Word: wanton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead patient's daughter comes on to William powerfully yet pathetically; a cheerful prostitute invites him to a casual coupling; and, finally, in the movie's central sequence, he succeeds in invading a secret orgy, where masked couples disport themselves sexually in a display that is more grim than wanton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Eyes On Them | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...HUPD arrested a Marblehead resident outside of Memorial Church. The man was accused of lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...region of Croatia that Serbs had inhabited for 500 years. Within four days, the Croatians drove out 150,000 Serbs, the largest ethnic cleansing of the entire Balkan wars. Investigators with the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague have concluded that this campaign was carried out with brutality, wanton murder and indiscriminate shelling of civilians. The tribunal is bringing war-crime indictments against high Croatian officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Doctrine | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Saturday, Munroe gathered with about 100 other Cambridge residents to protest what demonstrators say has become an endemic problem: wanton evictions and heartless rent increases throughout the city...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Locals Battle Evictions in Holiday Rally | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...social movement aimed at uplifting the community within the guarantees of democratic values. After his untimely death, with May, in a plane crash in 1970, waves of downsizing devastated cities and created problems for labor that still exist today. You can just imagine him wading into the fight against wanton job destruction, done for the sake of propping up corporate balance sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALTER REUTHER: Working-Class Hero | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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