Word: wantoned
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...marks of man's incursion on the wilderness are by now unmistakable -bullet-riddled trail signs, garbage-strewn campsites, carved-up tree trunks and paint-smeared rock faces. To Mrs. Margaret Robarge, wife of a Seattle postal clerk, such wanton destruction, which she first encountered on a pack trip into Washington's Cascade Range nine years ago, smacked of "wreckreation." Outraged, she decided to set up the Good Outdoor Manners Association...
...often nothing more than a fuzzy, fragile bit of Reconstruction legislation stands between segregationist killers and total freedom. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court moved to sharpen the focus - and the teeth - of those 19th century laws in decisions that dealt with two of the South's most wanton racist slayings: the June 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the shotgun killing along a Georgia highway three weeks later of Lemuel Penn, a Washington Negro educator. In both cases, the court reversed rulings by Southern federal-court judges and opened the way for further...
...lovely when Greta Garbo resurrected her onscreen, prowling around in trousers with John Gilbert in 1933's Queen Christina. Still, the myth persisted that besides being wanton and mannish, Sweden's baroque queen was plain ugly. A catty tale. Archaeologists opened the marble tomb in the Vatican grotto where she was buried in 1689, discovered the silver death mask of a handsome woman who might have played the Garbo part herself...
...teens of Tucson who knew of Charles Schmid's ghastly murders [Nov. 26] prove that dry rot has set in, not only in Arizona but in all of America. There is very little conscience in a nation whose teen-agers withhold information about wanton murders...
...history has not made it clear whether Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, was a wanton schemer or a woman wronged-particularly since the whole evidence of her presumed adultery and complicity in her husband's murder rests on the eleven documents that comprise the "Casket Letters." In this highly packed piece of literary sleuthing, Dr. M. H. Armstrong Davison concludes that the Casket Letters were frauds...