Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haggard but alert Trudeau read a nationally broadcast statement to officials and reporters gathered on Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottowa, blasting the FLQ as "a band of murderers" and adding, "I cannot but feel, as a Canadian, a deep sense of shame that this cruel and senseless act could be conceived in cold blood and executed in like manner...
...telegram, which did not mention its YAF affiliation, condemned the bombing for "its senseless destruction and for its threat to academic freedom...
President Pusey issued a statement yesterday afternoon which called the bombing "a senseless attack upon the entire University." He added that he was "confident the entire University will draw together in pursuing its work, sobered, thankful there was no loss of life...
...lady approaches him on the street and exhorts him: "GET OUT OF WASHINGTON! It's no place for a young man!" He watches a bunch of blacks mug a white man and woman in a seemingly random, senseless fashion. His more sober-minded comrades, living for "the Revolution," mechanize LNS and then viciously torture his friends to recover the equipment Mungo's friends have stolen in their big caper. He discovers that the Movement's members can be more than just disagreeable. Writing of his meeting with Eldridge Cleaver in his pre-Algerian days, he says: "He [Cleaver] told...
...said he mourned the "wanton and senseless murder of patrolman Schroeder" and pledged scholarships grants amounting to $94,500 to all mine of Schroeder's children...