Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation fighting for its very life, the rioting that pockmarked South Viet Nam last week seemed a senseless and dangerous self-indulgence. Night after night, motley mobs-students and street urchins, town toughs and saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Boy Scouts and Communist agitators-surged through the streets of Saigon. In battles with police and Vietnamese troopers, they answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their...
...Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu and ex-Premier Moise Tshombe were locked in a power struggle that had paralyzed the government, threatened to plunge the nation into another senseless civil war. "Political bankruptcy was complete," said Lieut. General Joseph Mobutu, the army commander, after his bloodless coup. "We are going to impose the spirit of discipline...
...student who signs a letter of intent to attend one college and then changes his mind. Ivy threats of participation in AAU meets last year during the NCAA-AAU dispute led to Congressional arbitration. Following such sharply opposing views in the past, the 1.600 rule seems to be a senseless conflict, especially since the motive of higher academic standards for athletes is shared by both the Ivies and the NCAA...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft...
...this brutal and senseless real-life event Truman Capote has built his latest book. It would be hard to imagine a more implausible crime reporter. Though Capote had ventured into non-fiction before, his reputation had been secured by short novels (The Grass Harp, Breakfast at Tiffany's) and stories of such delicacy that their wispy author has been called, among many other things, "the last of the old-fashioned Valentine makers...