Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent reason, one Monday morning seven weeks ago, bankers, corporate treasurers and speculators suddenly wanted to sell dollars, causing a mindless two-day dollar run. Washington policymakers are still frightened by the episode because they have no idea why it started. While not predicting The Crash of 79, the dramatic title of a novel that foretold the collapse of Western civilization after a dollar disaster, Henry Kaufman, a partner in Wall Street's Salomon Bros., warns that the attack on the dollar "has placed the entire international monetary system in jeopardy...
...themselves in togas and indulged in orgies and drink and subsequently lost their structure, their discipline, their empire, and most importantly their culture as we are losing ours to the tube. We are now experiencing the emergence of punk rock which is nothing more than powerfully amplified chants, moronic mindless chants. One punk group calls itself the "De-Evolutionary Band." Will close inspection of that perfect microcosm, Harvard Yard, reveal a regression of Man? Will students' minds grow shallow and their bodies soft from addiction to the tube? Will not the pillars of Cambridge crumble in the presence of punk...
...Esteli, the last town to fall, tales of mindless brutality were recounted by bitter survivors. A young mother carrying her baby in a search for milk was machine-gunned without warning; the woman and her child died instantly. A ten-year-old boy, witnesses testified, was dragged from his house and shot, and half a dozen teen-agers were lined up against a wall and gunned down. One 14-year-old boy was tortured by guardsmen, who cut open his chest with a knife...
...rebellion is clearly not confined to California, says Yankelovich. People elsewhere feel at least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck...
...hanging judge. The erratic justice that emerges from the badly overburdened system has been further complicated by the society's spasms of conscience. These arise from the larger unsolved questions of social justice in the U.S., principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others to be the victims of criminals, and who, in fact, are more likely to favor the death penalty...