Word: wantonness
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...Sadistic . . . Wanton." Allied headquarters roundly denounced the Germans for wrecking five of the six bridges across the Arno, called the "wanton destruction" another example of "Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's order to his troops to carry out demolitions with sadistic imagination." The enemy "has seen fit to use it [Florence] for his military traffic. . . . His paratroops are posted along the northern bank of the Arno within city limits. ... It is clear that the enemy intends to oppose the crossing of the Arno on both sides of the city, which remains in no man's land...
...dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...
...vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome's noble buildings. But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary. Between Alaric and Hitler, none of the many sackings of Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity that of the German and Spanish mercenaries of Emperor Charles V in 1527. They came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied for 150,000 ducats in back pay. In a misty May dawn, the Germans and Spaniards breached Rome's walls, ran amuck. They ransacked, burned, profaned...
...that he was doing his wanton best to discredit all plans for world cooperation...
...Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...