Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal on both technical and constitutional grounds." He claimed that the amount of marijuana involved would cost thirty cents in Mexico and three dollars in New York City -- "incommensurate with a $30,000 fine." However, one of Leary's lawyers, Joel Finer of Austin, Texas, called the heavy sentence "meaningless" because it is not a final sentence. Finer explained that Judge `Connally had an option to impose final sentence on Leary Friday or to commit him for 90-day psychiatric observation first...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the slaughter of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. The darkest side of murder-in this case the killing of a farm family in Kansas-is illuminated with a fidelity that makes the act as real as it was meaningless...
...many companies set records that the word became almost meaningless. Among those reported last week...
...mount a forceful attack on the Opposition's real opposition, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's ruling Laborites. But last week Heath finally kicked back. When his shadow minister for colonial affairs, dapper, dagger-tongued Angus Maude, wrote in the Spectator that "the Opposition has become a meaningless irrelevance," Heath called him on the carpet of his West End bachelor flat. When Maude emerged 30 minutes later, he announced his resignation from Heath's frontbench...