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Word: meaninglessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Leary Plans Drug Conviction Appeal, Urges Test Case of Marijuana Laws | 3/14/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 4, 1966 | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 25, 1966 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...many companies set records that the word became almost meaningless. Among those reported last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profits: Splits & Superlatives | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Season for Foxes | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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