Word: wantonly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This wanton abuse of judicial office is not an isolated instance. Rather, it is a dramatic example of what has quietly been going on for several weeks now. A number of judges, for one reason or another, have been lobbying persistently to defeat both bills; they have buttonholed legislators and, in Herter's phrase, "kept the phones buzzing." Their actions, while not successful against the juvenile court bill, contributed to the defeat last week of the District Court bill, which would have changed most of the district judgeships from part-time to full-time jobs and raised the pay. Though...
...sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their wanton beauty to delight the discerning eye. The honeysuckles have saturated the balmy air with the odor of the nectar of the gods, and the songbirds have awakened the echoes of music with their renewed message of light and love and life...
...remarked on everything from the character of Richard II ("nota for flat-erye & wanton & voluptuose pleasure") to the "names of sondry pieces of armour." He was, like Shakespeare, intensely nationalistic ("note the kowardyce of the frenche men"), sympathetic to Catholicism ("here," he wrote alongside one of Halle's anti-Catholic outbursts, "he begynneth to rayle"), and above all else, interested in the turn of phrase. Time and time again, Keen found his echo in Shakespeare's historical plays. Samples...
...penal stockade at Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate it into terms acceptable to the Johnson Office. It's translation, of course, but as in any good translation, the flavor of the original is not lost...
...Just before withdrawal from Suchon on Sept. 23, 1950, North Korean Communists piled wood, packing cases and other combustibles around the outside of the crowded Suchon jail, drenched everything with gasoline and lighted the fire, in a case of wanton savagery reminiscent of the Nazis' rape of Oradour-sur-Glane. Estimated deaths by fire: 280, mostly ROK civilian officials and landowners, if After capturing Taejon in the summer of 1950, the North Korean Home Affairs Department jammed the city prison with suspected anti-Communists-soldiers, officials, business and professional men. Beginning Sept. 23, 1950, several groups, numbering from...