Word: coldbloodedness
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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."
Raymond Ames Spruance, a taciturn, 57-year-old Hoosier, commands the great fleet which began blasting its way last week into the Marshalls. In the estimate of one of his superiors Spruance is a "coldblooded, fighting fool." It is his carriers, capital ships, cruisers, destroyers which pour the steel into...
Key character in the story is ten-year-old Emily Thornton (well played by eleven-year-old Abby Bonime), a secretive, imaginative youngster capable-with no villainous intentions-of both coldblooded treachery and hysterical murder.