Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same girl was struggling with her dessert. "I can't see," she complained huskily as the melting ice cream slithered from her spoon. "Well, you can feel, can't you?" said her escort. Just within earshot, a waitress hefted her tray with barely controlled anger at the callous young...
Wires & Wax. The cheating was an old story. In the cheaper shops where the ignorant or the unwary traded, callous butchers were caught using a variety of methods. Some merely weighed their thumbs with the meat. Some attached a wire from the scale to a foot pedal that they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller...
...Callous. In Chattanooga, Tenn., police reported that after wearing his socks on his hands to avoid leaving fingerprints during a burglary, Oscar Shelton was identified by a bare footprint...
...year-old independent weekly newsmagazine Philippines Free Press declared last week that "there is more grafting and thieving in our government today than there ever was in previous administrations, from that of Manuel Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay. Compared to the callous and venal officials we have nowadays, those that infested the [1948-53 Quirino administration] were clumsy amateurs...
Heavy Shillelagh. In his campaign against Dever, Herter showed a hard streak that surprised many of his friends. He called Dever a "British-type socialist" (an extra-heavy shillelagh among Boston Irish), belabored his administration as the "most powerful, wasteful, callous, boss-ridden outfit that ever shamed this state." In the 1952 Eisenhower landslide, Herter squeaked into office. Ike's margin in Massachusetts: 208,000; Herter...