Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after the end of a wanton struggle that raged for 19 months, killed 40,000 people and nearly destroyed a nation without noticeable gain for either Christian or Muslim combatants, Lebanon is painfully rebuilding. The primary symbol of the country's hope and determination to once again live at peace with itself is the reconstruction of Beirut, which serves not merely as Lebanon's capital but as home for half of its 3 million people and, until the war crippled it, was a gleaming Middle East social and commercial hub. The fighting devastated Beirut's business...
...thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed away in the process, and while the plot occasionally returns to the classroom setting for a change of pace, the movie ultimately degenerates into an orgiastic display of violence and wanton sex that approaches the Dornographic...
Although the looters of New York City can never be excused for their wanton destruction of personal property, we find the tyrannical actions of the Marquette Park racists and the Nazis of Chicago's South Side to be far more heinous. We would rather walk among the looters of human possessions in total darkness than the pillagers of human rights in the brightest sunshine...
Alan E. Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, and Laura Gordon Fisher, senior tutor for the House, sent a letter to all H-entry members saying the meeting concerned "the continuing pre-adolescent behavior of some entry members culminating in the wanton destructiveness of Thursday evening...
...woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for manslaughter following an abortion he performed on October 3, 1973 was the triumph of a prosecutor anxious to limit the right to an abortion in this country. In finding insufficient evidence to prove any "wanton" or "reckless" conduct to a viable human being, the Court has reasserted its faith in doctors' good medical judgments in performing abortions and in the rights of patients...