Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power." The government seems to ask of Hanoi that it bring an end to guerrilla activities in the South, agree to a permanently divided Vietnam, and accept a government in the South with no Communist influence. By quitely insisting on these conditions, it makes the prospect of negotiations meaningless for Hanoi and the Viet Cong, who have fought 20 years for exactly what Washington would have them renounce...
...Young Dems' statement deplored "meaningless and thoughtless protests... which often violate the law solely for the purpose of violation...
Weiner confirmed that the condemnation of meaningless protests applies directly to draft card burnings. "Many of those who protest," he said, "seem to have no alternatives in mind or no mind for alternatives...
Human Imagination. By contrast, Paul van Buren, 41, an Episcopal minister and associate professor of religion at Temple, gloomily concludes that any talk of God-including the prospect of his reappearance-is philosophically meaningless...
...Finally, I regret the word "swallow." I did not wish to imply that you are "dupes," a disagreeable and meaningless term used by disagreeable people. Rather I was registering surprise at the completeness of Mr. Maher's acceptance of the Leninist theory of imperialism...