Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing-not even the new revelations about White House aides and former Attorney General John Mitchell. Nixon's effort to cover it up for ten months, however, means everything. His ending of the American involvement in Viet Nam is praiseworthy. His continued bombing in Cambodia and Laos seems senseless. His cutting of small domestic programs that affect the people is understandable. His reluctance to rein in defense spending and what is often seen as his toadying to millionaires and corporate giants are discouraging...
PROBABLY TWO MILLION Vietnamese died in the brutal and senseless American war that ravaged most of their country. U.S. terror bombing in the countryside herded Vietnamese into the cities, severing the ties that bound them to their land and rudely thrusting them into a new and terrible life on the edge of existence. It would be hard to determine who suffered more from the American presence -- the dead or the living...
Besieged by consumers, Congress was stirred to action. In a price-fixing frenzy, the House Banking Committee voted to roll back retail food prices to May 1, 1972, an economically senseless measure that would be vetoed by the President because it would bankrupt farmers and middlemen. At the urging of the House leadership, the committee reconsidered next day and settled for a rollback of prices, rents and interest rates to Jan. 10, the last day of Phase II. The measure may still be too extreme to win a majority in the House, but public pressures are rising on Congressmen...
...unfair to compare the deprogramming techniques of Ted Patrick and concerned relatives with any "brain-blowing technique" designed to rob the individual of his free will. Anyone who has ever listened to the senseless incantations parroted by members of the Children of God, and observed their unquestioning acceptance of arbitrary authority and misunderstood doctrine, realizes that members of such sects no longer have any free will or individuality. Members of the Children of God and groups like it have abrogated their responsibility and free will in return for easy answers and pseudo security...
...year, has been sent up to the big leagues. His pinch-hitter, Franklin L. Ford, denied the Union even minimal gains. Dunlop, a master at the art of unseeming accommodation, this year probably would have made at least minor concessions to the Union. But the intransigent Ford, with his senseless references to 'spring rituals,' has refused to toss even the smallest bone to the Union. Although the strike hardly made such concessions necessary, they would seemingly have cost him nothing and helped to defuse the possibility that the Union may make desperate moves in the future, such as withholding grades...