Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Mr. Molotov was wrong in October 1939, when he condemned France and Britain as being aggressors and praised Hitlerite Germany as being the peace-seeking country." Dulles threw in a batch of Molotov's own 1939 quotes to make the wound saltier. Example: "It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as 'a fight for democracy...
...belief that every thinking individual should be familiar with a certain basic core of Western intellectual tradition, and that modern specialized education failed to present this heritage. Proponents say that its scope is so broad that no secondary school curriculum could possibly cover the same areas. But it is senseless for a student to spend a whole year re-hashing material he has already assimilated. G.E.'s value lies in its unifying approach to knowledge, not in the specific subjects studied. The advanced G. E. courses and many offered in the various departments follow this broad approach. An incoming student...
State Senator George J. Evans (Rep-Middlesex), chairman of the joint legislative committee on education, yesterday denounced as "senseless and stupid" proposed anti Communist legislation now before his committee...
Referring to House Bills 145 and 146 aimed at alleged Communists in Massachusetts educational institutions. Evans charged, "Everybody in his right mind knows they're rather stupid, senseless things...
Children, said Grahame, consider the adult world utterly whimsical, lacking in logic and common sense. It is populated and governed by a "strange, anemic order of beings" whose "movements [are] confined and slow," whose habits are "stereotyped and senseless." With "absolute license to indulge in the pleasures of life," e.g., to climb trees or dabble in ponds, they prefer to sit indoors...