Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikeda, 61, who was one of the very few to support Kishi to the end. A Liberal Democratic spokesman said, "Kishi has become a scapegoat. He has taken on his own shoulders the hate against conservatives, the hate against America, the hate against everything." Then with cheerful and almost mindless optimism, he added: "When Kishi leaves, our party will have a new leader, and with that a lot of the hate will go away...
...tired of play; they are eager and ready to begin serious work." They have been exposed to travel, nursery schools and working mothers. They visit the public library and fly in airplanes. They dial the telephone, operate hi-fi sets and read words on TV. Yet teachers persist in mindless "fun"-and leave the kids sucking their thumbs...
...scheme. Vogel shores up his shaky position by offering to act as intermediary between the village peasants, who are hiding, and the soldiers. The peasants are oxen, the soldiers wolves; Author Pick obviously intends his hero's predicament to represent that of humanity caught in a world of mindless placidity and meaningless violence...