Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joaquin Valley, they wrote of burgeoning industry and pioneer ranchers: of a group of men who strove ruthlessly to throttle natural resources for their own profit. In Fat City, Leonard Gardner speaks only of status and decay, and a society where choices made by men are arbitrary and fruitless...
...Nixon decides his law and order message wasn't brought home strongly enough we can anticipate more provocation of the San Jose "This is what they really hate" style. The tactic is really an old one: tempt the opposition into some exceptionally sensational and yet fruitless act and then use it as an excuse to quash them. Hitler, for example, did it with the Reichstag fire...
...apparent de-escalation has amounted merely to a clever shift in emphasis, combined with an adept appraisal of how far the war could be extended and prolonged without a complete collapse of the political economy at home. The beginning of the near-worthless talks and an end to the fruitless, politically detrimental bombing of the North shattered a growing and powerful anti-war movement in America; but, since then, the bombers have merely moved south, defoliating the countryside, herding millions of Vietnamese into teeming, overcrowded urban centers, undermining the rural base of the NLF-in sum, creating a viable political...
...Fruitless Wrangling...
...apply diplomatic pressure as the Syrian armor found the Jordanian resistance brutally tough but did not pull back. At the U.N., the U.S. shunned a British and French effort to seek a four-power declaration urging an end to the fighting, fearing that it would only lead to fruitless wrangling...