Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes had begun to taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young stranger stopped to ask the way to a nearby town, Langrish felt as though a "seismic disturbance" were taking place in his brain...
Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session...
...week long the President was out of sight, out of the headlines, and at sea. He spent the week enjoying a quiet, aimless cruise on Chesapeake Bay on the yacht Williamsburg. But out of the past came another one of his unguarded, pop-off letters to put him back on Page...
...wounded and the panic-stricken would be led or carried out. The aimless would be guided into hotels, other havens marked with red, white & blue signs: "This is the emergency welfare center for this area." Evacuees would be routed into tunnels that were still open, over bridges that were still intact-carried to nearby communities by trains, buses, taxis, autos. Soup kitchens would be set up. Registration points would be established to record the names of the homeless...
...play has its lively moments-bits of stage business, cracks about show business, short vaudeville turns, Murvyn Vye's playing of a slimy actor's agent. But the whole thing seems curiously aimless and trivial, not least because it smacks of the very shoddiness it presumably set out to expose...