Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas-Fort Worth air war: Isn't [it] all rather childish? Surely some better use could be made of the money which has been and will be wasted in a senseless rivalry...
...lieutenant slugged Pang with his flashlight, then pistol-whipped him with a .45. Pang slumped to the floor, senseless. Rushed by a jeep to a Marine sick bay, then by helicopter to a hospital ship, Pang Wha II died four days later without regaining consciousness...
...high marks, and he worked for such bandleaders as Tommy Tucker and Claude Thornhill, looking for ideas in his favorite composers -Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev and Bach. When he turned to playing, he could blow ragtime, Dixieland, the blues and bop, but he refused to be categorized: "It would be senseless to start playing and sound like anybody else...
...other hand," McCloskey said, "has indicated by his public approval of McCarthy and his surrender to the Taft wing of the party that he is not a man of firm enough moral principle to resist the pressure for senseless persecution, even if he wanted to, which I doubt...
...Senseless death struck in San Antonio, too. One Jerry George Adrian, 29, who had come to Texas from a New York mental hospital, got into a cab. After a few blocks he fired five shots into the back of Driver Leo Rios. "God told me to do it," he told the police. "I heard voices. I fought the impulse, but the voice said now or never...