Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe. "Why do you risk your life in this needless way?" asked his commanding officer. "It's not needless," replied Naguib. "It makes my men fight better...
...Such policies gave Russia possession of atomic secrets, built up the Communist menace to the free world, caused the needless sacrifice of American lives in Korea, and put upon us a crushing burden for national defense...
...classroom is that the professor must ask questions of a challenging nature if he expects any response. There is the oft' told tale of the newly arrived professor who asked his students factual questions. After a few meetings, the number of students dwindled until the professor was finally alone. Needless to say, he revised his teaching techniques...
...perfectly true that we have a legal right to slam our doors in their faces, although if I may be facetious, most doors in the Houses have an automatic closer attached which makes door-slamming a job for some Hercules. But it is both needless and rude to do so even if it were physically possible, especially since a little bit of imagination could put an end to the problem once and for all. Harvey M. Chester...
...popular subject of marital infidelity. The injured party, who is the "constant wife" of the title, not only knows about her husband's affair but actually approves of it. She expresses this unconventional view with some force and scores many points, over the other characters, all of whom, needless to say, are slavishly conventional. All of them--the friend in need, the moralizing mother, two different types of outraged husband, and several others--are put to the sword, and a good deal of genuine social satire results from this assault on conventional morality...