Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's police solved another senseless murder last week after an attendant at a shooting gallery reported that two boys were trying to sell him a .22 rifle for $3. The cops arrested the pair-16-year-old Edward Baldwin, 17-year-old Donald Ferrick-and almost immediately got a startling confession. While roaming a Brooklyn park, the boys had decided to shoot a young man who was walking along a shadowed path. One shot, fired by Ferrick, dropped him dead. Not until reading the papers later did they know he was a rabbinical student named Samuel Bernard London...
Drama & Debate. This generation of Americans tends to view politics as a sordid and (worse) senseless contest...
...years he held almost undisputed control of the back jungle country in Pahang, terrorizing villagers with his senseless cruelty. Late in 1950, disgusted with his ruthlessness and disillusioned with Communism, many of his own soldiers began to desert him. In one week, more than 10 of them surrendered. Since then, Manap Jepun, with only a small cadre of Chinese terrorists, has been pressed back into the northern mountains, hounded by British teams accompanied by his former followers, eager for the $25,000 price on his head...
...them? And why does the University see fit to grant any credit whatever for these courses? They certainly contribute not one whit to that education with which Harvard seeks to equip its students; on the contrary, they seriously detract from that education by occupying the students' time with senseless military trivia, and by attempting to inculcate them with values which are completely antiethical to those which Harvard tries to impart...
...radio. His initial reaction was highly egocentric: "I could have fallen off the bed. This sinks me." Then he scrambled back to his role as a bandit with nice manners. His lawyer announced that Willie was writing to Schuster's family to express "his sincere regrets at this senseless, disgraceful murder." Willie has been offered $250,000 for his memoirs and will turn this money over, his lawyer said, to the "Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund," to assist ex-convicts and wayward juveniles who want to go straight...