Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest crisis in South Viet Nam, with its cruel religious war (see THE WORLD), made it increasingly evident that the U.S., despite its outpouring of dollars and lives, has been unable to impose any sort of order there, much less win a war against Communism. And in Philadelphia, a senseless, looting Negro riot made it grimly clear that the U.S. has a long way to go in imposing law and order at home...
...agents who moved swiftly into the case, the utter senselessness of such a murder was in itself an important clue. They did not have to dig far to discover that Athens is a center of activities for one of the most senseless organizations imaginable: the Ku Klux Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers...
...Kill 'Em!" The senseless nightmare stretched, night after night throughout the week, through the main streets of Harlem, and, like an echo, through the Bedford-Stuyvesant slum district of Brooklyn. Roving bands of rioters-most of them kids-surged through the districts, aimlessly, desperately pursuing their urge for violence. They attacked a passing car driven by a white man and roughed up a woman passenger. They broke doors and windows in shops owned mostly by Jewish merchants, tearing down protective iron gates and screens. They ran off with TV sets, appliances, canned goods, clothing...
...What right have you to criticize the music that today's teen-agers listen to and enjoy? Some of the things that are put on records I know are extremely idiotic and senseless, but the hot rod and surfing songs represent a way of life to many teenagers. Most of the death-type songs teach us a lesson that all teen-agers should learn. Just because some of them are death ballads by no means indicates a wish to die by teenagers. They only teach us not to be foolish while getting thrills...
...Chief Inspector Jean Samson of Paris' First Mobile Brigade, it appeared to be one of those senseless, psychotic murders committed by a madman who quickly gives himself away or else fades into the anonymity of the city and is never caught. But within a day of Jean-Luc Taron's murder, the case took a bizarre turn, and before the week was out Paris had been half-hypnotized with horror. For Jean-Luc's killer was a brazen publicity seeker, who taunted the cops and the newspapers with a barrage of telephone calls, special-delivery letters and threats of another...