Word: wantonness
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Scriptwriter Pete goes with him, and they fight every step of the way through an underbrush of moralization about the evils of wanton slaughter. In the end Wilson gets tired of the safari to self-understanding and snarls: "What the hell, a man's responsibility is really limited to himself. If you found out, through me, that you're not as brave as you think you are, well, that's not my fault. You would have found out ultimately anyway...
...Auburn Street were maliciously snapped off. On previous occasions I have counted as many as fifteen ears parked on Dunster Street on which this same prank was played. Since the replacement of these aerials usually costs about ten dollars, I personally fail to find any humor in this wanton destructiveness. The countless number of windows around the University which have been broken by rock-throwing urchins is just another example of this vandalism. Especially in view of the fact that the business derived from the University singlehandedly supports local merchants, it is time for the Cambridge police to provide more...
Last week in Manhattan, Judge Francis Valente referred to Minot Frazier Jelke's "greed, wanton self-debasement, venal exploitation and progressive debauchery," and sentenced him to three to six years in Sing Sing for pimping. There was a silver lining: if he behaves himself, pudgy "Mickey" Jelke will get out not long after his 25th birthday in November 1954, when he will inherit his $1,000,000 oleomargarine fortune...
...This is a grave incident. It involves a gross violation of the U.S. zone border by satellite or Soviet aircraft. It involves the wanton shooting down of an American plane well inside the U.S. zone of Germany...
...Joliet, Ill.. prison, where he was sen tenced to life in 1924 for his part in the wanton slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, 48-year-old Nathan Leopold felt that he had paid his debt to society and asked for parole. Said he: "I have changed completely. My personality, even my physical being has changed. No cell that was in my body at the time of the crime is there today. I have learned my lesson.&" The parole board is expected to announce its decision sometime this month...