Word: coldbloodedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly so absurd a character, so warped and inadequate a mind, despite its coldblooded political discernment, could not in so short a time have worked such universal havoc if it had not embodied forces of evil in the world far greater than itself.
Despite their other crimes, the Germans had generally observed the rules of war in their treatment of captured U.S. and British fighting men. But last week even that record was blotched by the coldblooded murder of scores of U.S. soldiers.
Danger and Purpose. Karski tells his story impersonally; and it differs from classic adventure stories because the organization rather than the individual is the central figure in it. The fates of the underground soldiers were dwarfed by the depthless misery and heroism of the people they served. When Story of...
By & large the Junker were perhaps the most able, intelligent and disciplined single group of men on the continent of Europe. Certainly they were the most ruthless, tough-minded, coldblooded. They needed to be. For never before had their caste so squarely faced the prospect of extermination.
Next day a patrol came by, read the telltale marks, tracked the natives, caught up with the white man, took him to court. Said the magistrate: "Coldblooded cruelty. ?50."