Word: needless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposing armies in Korea accept the 38th parallel as a dividing line, and 2) that the U.N. call for a truce at 4 a.m. on June 25, the first anniversary of the Korean war. Johnson spoke of the Korean war as "a hopeless conflict of attrition and indecision . . . needless human slaughter." He implied that the U.S. ought to pull out, leaving "Asia for Asiatics...
Three professors yesterday attacked as needless and dangerous the proposed Massachusetts bill to outlaw "subversive" activities and to require the loyalty oaths of all school and college teachers. The bill, modeled after Maryland's Ober Law, makes it illegal to teach the violent overthrow of the government. Those participating in groups branded as subversive by the courts would face fines and imprisonment...
...favored any and all measures necessary to defeat the Axis powers, saying that "there can be no peace" with the powers of totalitarianism as strong and power-hungry as they are. Before the bill was passed, 68 faculty members sent a resolution to Congress denouncing the measure as a needless curtailing of popular government. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Frederick Merk, professor of History, were among the signers...
Chrysler quit the railroad when its president gave him a needless bawling out over a hotbox. He hired on with the American Locomotive Co., and in less than two years, at 36, he became works manager of its Allegheny plant. Then one day in 1911 a man named Nash from Flint, Mich, offered him the job of running the Buick plant. It meant less money, but Chrysler had never got automobiles out of his mind; he accepted. He scrapped Buick's leisurely, carriage-maker methods, soon jacked production from 45 to 200 cars a day. The money took care...
...certainly hard to understand why a convinced non-Communist should make it a matter of absolute and ultimate principle to refuse to affirm he is not a member of the Communist party-needless as the affirmation...