Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas. University officials, in statements made over the years, have shown that Harvard understands this principle. If the principle is to stand, the University now must use all the power at its command to end these interferences with free inquiry made in the name of loyalty. It would be pointless, and harmful to military security, for the University to expel its excellent NROTC unit. But the University can help American higher education to save its vitality if it will demand that the Navy exempt all NROTC students from the present loyalty test...
...mind and heart in Berlin's raw, garish ruins were fixed on sheer survival. During the next four years the Germans pushed through poverty to positive goals, to a fierce fight for freedom. Today, in a humdrum autumn of pointless peace, hope has departed and "normalcy" takes the shape of nothingness...
...learn that Fort Penn politicians made shady deals and occasionally put figureheads in office, or that its rich were snobs and its newly rich social climbers. What may surprise them is that Novelist O'Hara documents these commonplace facts of life with so many tedious and often pointless instances...
...hard military fact. When the B-36 was adopted, the airmen insisted, and when its production was later stepped up at the expense of other aircraft, it was because it was the only U.S. weapon in existence which could reach the only possible U.S. enemy. "It is pointless to talk in riddles," declared Air Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg with a blunt disregard for the diplomatic niceties. "The only military threat to the security of the United States and the peace of the world comes from the Soviet Union...
Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float...