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Word: wantonness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLUM's wanton disregard of the ordinary decencies in this matter demonstrates its unfitness to judge others on questions of due process," Bergenheim said. "All friends of civil liberty must be saddened by the CLUM's rapid descent into this hypocritical variant of McCarthyism," he added...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Investigation Finds B.U. Violates Rights | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...threat posed by the remnants of the old Irish Republican Army. Their laughter died quickly after the birth of the Provisional I.R.A., whose cold-eyed gunmen began ambushing Protestant loyalist civilians, policemen and the newly arrived soldiers with ruthless efficiency. But a decade of Provo bloodshed, climaxed by the wanton murder of Lord Mountbatten in Southern Ireland last August, has eroded much of the I.R.A.'s support in the largely Catholic Republic. "They started well but now they're Communists," growled a Dublin workman over a pint of Guinness last week. "They don't want Irish unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: It is Clearly a War Situation | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...wiggled toward me, a wanton nymph with moist and parted mouth, and now bending down over my bare belly, crooning her glorious obscenities, prepared to take between those lips unkissed by my own the bare-rigid stalk of my passion...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: See No Evil | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

Kunstler said he refused to sign a letter which denounces Vietnam for expelling ethnic Chinese because the statement is "a wanton and cruel act." Folksinger Joan Baez wrote the letter, which actress and activist Jane Fonda also refused to sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activist Lawyer Criticizes U.S. For Violating Human Rights | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...blowing up fuel dumps and radar stations and killing 300. When the Salisbury representatives arrived in London, the Front delegates responded by branding Muzorewa and his associates "criminals" and refusing to shake hands or take tea with them. In return, Muzorewa declared that he would protect his people from "wanton dictators in the making" such as Nkomo and Mugabe. Both delegations insisted they had come to negotiate with the British government, not with each other...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Thatcher's Plan May Cave In | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

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