Word: wantonness
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...Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...
...Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...Locket (RKO Radio) is a dull blend of two of Hollywood's hardest-worn current themes: psychiatry and vicious womanhood. Laraine Day is a sweet-faced wanton who lies, cheats, steals and murders her way through the ruination of three remarkably gullible leading men (Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond...
...American institutions. His next letter is from a Catholic priest who hails him as a vanguard figure in the struggle to preserve the American family. the same mail yields a series of long legal forms which notify him that an Arlington, Va., office-seeker thinks him a wanton defamer of decent people's character, and has filed suit to that effect with the Supreme Court. And not infrequently students in certain of his courses come to Emerson 200 to ask almost literally whether he knows "where the Hell their course is heading...
...superintendent of Kirkland House has threatened to remove the entry phones because of what he terms "wanton damage" to the phones by students. The fact that nearly all receivers are cracked or broken is a result of their faulty installation too close to the door partitions of the booths. When it is necessary to leave the phone for some reason, the person using it must let the receiver hang in the air, so that even the slightest vibration of the receiver cord sways the receiver and cracks it against the partition. Each new person using the phone is unaware...