Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be informed, aroused and challenged to think and debate their way through the great issues that confront them. Mr. Hull was particular upon this latter point. In this election year, he said, the people bear an especial responsibility in U.S. foreign relations. "It is the responsibility of avoiding needless controversy. ... It is the responsibility for patience...
...same food and drink as the men. At Berchtesgaden he has occasional parties for men guests only, gives them French wine, for which he has developed a strong liking. . . . One of his aides told me that violent rages were often followed by fits of weeping and talk of 'needless bloodshed' which were hushed up by his entourage. Hitler has not been in Berlin since the R.A.F. began their latest big bombings...
...this had been all that happened, it would have amounted to no more than an unfortunate but minor railroad accident. What followed may go down as one of the most grotesquely needless tragedies in railroad history...
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey, Jeffers' successor, promptly retorted that these were needless worries. He said steps were being taken to supply the needed manpower and cord, declared his tests showed the new tires would be good enough. Officials pooh-poohed an Associated Press report that Indiana highway police had found synthetic tires faulty and had to discard a third of them after 1,500 miles because they developed heat blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand...
...each patient; size him up; 5) never get angry with a patient and never give him the lie direct-"the patient is always right"; 6) do not put too much faith in laboratory tests nor order unnecessary ones-a laboratory girl's report has caused many a needless operation which a careful physical examination or even a glance at the patient would have prevented; 7) some patients, the "constitutional inadequates," are victims of an "ineradicable disease" and there is no use spending your time and their money trying to make them healthy; 8) always tell a patient the truth...