Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Namibian people. More importantly, SWAPO enjoys wide support in Namibia, and most experts agree that it would win if an internationally supervised plebiscite were to be held. The organization is multi-racial, and its membership encompasses all of Namibia's ethnic groups. These people are obviously not wanton terrorists and are as legitimate as the French resistance during World War II, the Afghan freedom fighters, or Solidarity...
...acceptable by recent events--can easily degenerate into violet and irrational anti-Semitism. Even at bastions of enlightenment such as Ivy League universities the Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkans. Fortunately the vast majority of observers have condemned such wanton destruction as a base and vicious way of making a political statement...
...they scuffled, one of the passengers in the car tried to help his friend. The officer called for assistance and both men were subdued. Hugh R. Trainor of West Roxbury and John J. Kelly were charged with public drinking, assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly person and wanton destruction of property. Kelly was also arrested for attempting to rescue a prisoner...
...alive, has claimed that she gave him numerous drug injections, including the fatal one. Smith, a Canadian, is in Toronto, and she has not been charged with any crime. Still, the police and district attorney in Los Angeles have reopened the case. Says Prosecutor Michael Genelin: "We have a wanton and willful act that was done, clearly overlooking the dangers involved. She might be charged with second-degree murder...
...Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that the "author" denounced it as "obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet...