Word: wantonness
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...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...
...commission drew a thin line between what are called "acts of omission" and "acts of commission." Thousands of military prisoners perished in the "acts of omission," e.g., in the long forced marches which brought privation, starvation and exposure. Other thousands were deliberately slain in the wanton "acts of commission." Items...
...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...
...woman is a misunderstood woman; a misunderstood woman is an unsatisfied woman; a woman who cannot lead a full sex life will clearly suffer damage in body and soul. This chain of reasoning cannot be broken-not even by an assurance that one is leading the life of a wanton...
...conducting germ warfare and had massacred North Korean and Chinese prisoners. "Physically," one ex-prisoner said of his Chinese camp, "it was all right, but mentally it was damn rough." Almost to a man, the returnees reported that it was the North Koreans who had abused them with wanton brutality...