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Word: aimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Terriers maintained momentum as the Crimson could not control the puck and managed only aimless clearing passes to center ice. B.U.'s first line clicked three minutes later when Jeffy Kowels beat Tate with a 15-foot wrist shot into the upper right hand corner of the twines...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Pucksters Blanked By B.U. In Ice Hockey Season Opener, 4-0 | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

Like the music, the story is vague, aimless, and often downright boring. None of the issues in Jonah's life takes on much significance. Nothing can be moving in a film where the dialogue proceeds on stilts...

Author: By William F. Powers, | Title: Mellow but Righteous | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...other 89 minutes of action, nobody on the Crimson bench could find much to cheer about. Missed opportunities, botched shots, aimless passes, and a truly stellar Husky eleven combined to make the trip home the only satisfying thing about the whole...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UConn Huskies Chew Up Booters, 5-1 | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...their children, Mary, 15, and John Joel, 10. During the week Knapp commutes from his Manhattan office to his mother's house in suburban Westchester County. He usually arrives late because he spends the evenings with his mistress Nina in the city. At home, his children grow aimless and petulant. Visions of Peter Frampton fill Mary's head and threaten her chances of passing a summer-school English course. Obese John Joel's idea of a perfect day is: "Have Mary out of the house. Have the air conditioner on and read comics. No big deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Summer of Discontent | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...espcially its youth, being progressively cut off from the sources of human and national experience, appears to me to the the principal form of poverty in this country. Among the affluent and educated is the main source of disorientaion and unhappiness. Among others, it is the stimulus to aimless rage and mindless vandalism...

Author: By Richard E. Pipes, | Title: Student Without Smiles | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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