Word: wantoned
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...seemed to provide every reason for not invading China. For it was over China that even Mr. Moore's extensive approval began to shrink. It was then he found himself unable to support "an army domination which not only assassinated its own chiefs of state, but also provoked wanton wars at will...
...Nazis promise five-for-one, or 100-to-1 retaliation. Their only answer was the "Baedeker raids" (see p. 26). The British, for once in the position where they could dish it out, made no more "Britain-can-take-it" talk. Only one newspaper called the bombing of York "wanton." The rest unemotionally reported "York suffered heavy bombing -," let it go at that...
...audiences nearly 50 years ago, is poorly preserved by her bosomy photographs or the cavernous sounds of her model-T recordings. One critic, the late Henry E. Krehbiel, better recorded her effect on the half-fascinated, half-scandalized audiences of her day: "She presented a woman thoroughly wanton and diabolically equipped with the wicked witcheries which explained, if they did not palliate, the conduct of Don José. . . . In some respects [she] left absolutely nothing to the imagination." Calvé herself loathed the role, but she sang it as often as 14 times a season...
Most remarkable episode in Rothermere's gold-encrusted career was his crusade for a greater Hungary. The Daily Mail took up Hungary's cause in 1927, for five years harped on the "wanton" dismemberment of Hungary at Versailles. Astonished Hungarians went wild with enthusiasm, showered gifts on Rothermere, named a street after him in Budapest. A Hungarian newspaper, Pesti Hirlap, supposedly backed by some members of the Government, offered Rothermere the crown of Hungary. When he refused, it was offered to his son Esmond...
...wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...