Word: wantonness
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...John Riggins and I came into the league the same year, and I like him," says Lyle Alzado, a particularly wanton defensive lineman. "But if he tries to run around my end, I'm going to have to take his head off." A similar warning-"beheaded" was the word used-has been issued to Wide Receiver Charlie Brown from Cornerback Lester Hayes, a sticky individual who used to ladle caramel all over himself until the league observed he was intercepting passes without knowing...
With America revelling in the wanton machismo of Grenada and pseudo-Keynesian recovery, the political climate is perfect for Reagan retirement...
...Korean people can be convinced of it, them perhaps progress can be made. This progress could include a reduction in force, help for the North Korean economy, maybe even eventual reunification. First, through, the fear level must be reduced and North Korea only hurts itself by engaging in such wanton terror as murder of government officials. The burden lies on North Korea to truly broaden and legitimize its government. But this will be made easier if American stops looking at the world through red-colord glasses...
...said were seeking to disrupt relations between his government and South Korea. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the slayings "a great calamity, which deserves to be condemned." Said Australia's Prime Minister Bob Hawke: "No one can gain or draw satisfaction from this wanton act of terrorism." Both India and Australia were to have been hosts to the Koreans later on the tour. In Los Angeles, 600 Koreans attended a memorial service at the Wilshire United Methodist Church. Said Korean Consul Moon Ik Chang: "We are very shattered...
...final position closely followed Shultz's recommendations, and the Administration quite consciously played up Shultz's role in presenting it, to the nation and the world. The U.S., Reagan decided, would play the part of prosecutor in the court of world opinion, presenting evidence of wanton Soviet destruction of civilian lives and demanding an accounting. But the U.S. would talk reprisal principally in the area of the crime, the field of civil aviation. The response had to be measured, acceptable to allies and domestic public opinion. This way the dispute would be seen not as a superpower confrontation...