Word: aimless
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...Said Dr. Allan V. Heely, headmaster of New Jersey's Lawrenceville School: "American education is . . . aimless, unorganized and purposeless...
Jane's life was like millions of others: she married a soldier, trekked from camp to camp, had her baby, watched her husband go overseas. Then the lonely days set in. After a year of aimless waiting and aimless worrying, Jane bought the house. Now the hours once spent in nervous frustration go into the small but absorbing tasks of making the house a home...
...choice but to post machine guns at the exits from the square and pray for a quiet night. A stolid British sentry locked Daser's door from the outside and sat down to wait. When a German pillbox on the town's outskirts began to fire aimless machine-gun bursts, the British sent in to ask if the general would not stop it, since surrender had been agreed upon. Answered testy General Daser...
...Love A Soldier" rolls along on its aimless way in the same manner as a hundred other mediocre movies. The most striking characterization is that of the street car conductor, played by Barry Fitzgerald, who remains calm through rain, shine, and traffic jams...
Your correspondent gives a vivid impression of a convention "floundering" along, and then being thrown in its last hour into a "frenzy of plans" through a "bystander," Mr. L. H. Schultz, who "stood just about all the aimless dreaming he could stand." I dislike to spoil a dramatic story, but perhaps the facts will improve...