Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal-minded St. Louis Post Dispatch, "but the truth is that we are risking world war in Southeast Asia for no sound national purpose at all. The new exchange of strikes simply emphasizes the bankruptcy of American policy. Our basic purpose ought to be to disengage from a fruitless and seemingly endless conflict by seeking a political instead of a military settlement...
...pursued this line of reasoning to a successful conclusion, Dr. Kline, 48, won the Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award of $10,000. His citation declared: "Literally hundreds of thousands of people are leading productive, normal lives who-but for Dr. Kline's work-would be leading lives of fruitless despair and frustration." Patients who had been in mental hospitals so long that all hope for them had been abandoned have shown marked improvement on the "psychic energizers" developed by Dr. Kline or resulting from his work. * How many lives the drugs save among suicidal patients can never be known...
...start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...
...local Negro leaders were complaining publicly that King had ignored them and. anyway, that he was not speaking for them. Nonetheless, King and Mayor Robert Wagner met five times in four days. Not much of substance came out of the meetings. But King's trip was not entirely fruitless: while in town he joined other national civil rights generals in a summit conference. At the end, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins released a statement calling on Negroes "voluntarily to observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election...
...Much for Drugs. Price rises in drugs and prescriptions are a source of endless and usually fruitless argument because of the medical revolution since the sulfas appeared in 1937. The average price of a prescription before Pearl Harbor was 93?; by 1956 it was up to $2.62, and it is now $3.10. Prescription items used to be less than 10% of all drug sales; now they are more than 30%, and they add up to a big business of more than $1.5 billion a year. With bulk buying of drugs by hospitals and government agencies, and massive sales...