Word: fruitlessness
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...responsibility in all cities, but are dealt with in wildly different ways. With one quarter of New York City's population, for example, Los Angeles averages more than three times as many drunk arrests-100,000 a year. Yet, as the presidential commission sees it, arresting drunks is fruitless anywhere. Not only do "revolving-door jails" intensify the despair that drives men to drink in the first place; they also compound the police problem. In Washington, D.C., a survey turned up six chronic offenders who had been arrested a total of 1,409 times and served a collective...
...devoted half his sermon to a general discussion -- and condemnation -- of the Administration's exercise of power at home and abroad. On Vietnam, he concluded: "The bombing of the north [is] fruitless [and] the continued escalation of the war disastrous...
...70th or 80th or maybe even 90th book. No use trying to count, they say, because in Wodehouse's puzzling world, as in Einstein's, one and one don't always add up to two. Quite true. Old Wodehouse-masters know it is equally fruitless to try to unravel the plot in one of his potty idyls. In this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove...
...Harvard image seems to demand such a mythical being, and the fruitless search leads to general exasperation and thence to the kind of self-defeating outcome we have just witnessed. For what of the perfect professor, a degree program is scrapped and the future range of experience and interests within the Social Relations Department is radically limited. This kind of assertion of academic purity is deeply detrimental to teaching, practice and research in psychology. Robert May Teaching Fellow in Social Relations
...traditional and relatively easy issues of segregation and discrimination, and could not organize itself to produce one within the life of the 89th Congress. And in any event it did not do so because it allowed the question of developing a program to be superseded by a preposterous and fruitless controversy over a Department of Labor report which had been the original precipitant of the Howard speech...