Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accept the biological doctrine that birth and death are the essential machinery of evolution, reciprocal phases that make it possible for a species to change, perhaps to improve, over long periods of years. But that takes none of the heartbreak out of it, none of the sense of needless loss. And there are some few in every generation whom we would like to see exempt from the general...
...9/18/55-Time of landing 17:50. Ran out of gas. Was lost for 2.5 hours. Was looking for any place to land about 1.5 hours before I had to. Couldn't even find a farmhouse. I was on my way back to La Mesa. Needless to say, I didn't make it. The reason the plane hit the tree I don't know. The sun was in my eyes. It sat down alright then she turned and here I am-time...
...Needless to say, then, as a source of humor No Time for Sergeants is practically a goldmine. Military life is always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...
Last January I went through the course at Stead with the RB-36 crew that I was on at the time. It was no picnic, but I saw no brutality or needless suffering on anyone's part. The instruction, demonstration and problems were pertinent and well presented, and had the invaluable effect of giving the trainees ... a good inkling of and preparation for what to expect...
...June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...