Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon himself wanted to show his hornless head to the people of all 48 states, but G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall finally convinced him that this would be a senseless waste of energies. Instead, Nixon & Co. mapped three tours, one to touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch...
This, says Bultmann, is the language of mythology, meaningful in New Testament times and derived mainly from Greek Gnosticism and Jewish apocalypticism. To expect moderns to accept it as true is both senseless and impossible-senseless "because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such . . . the cosmology of a pre-scientific age"; and impossible, because "no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell...
...honest fistfighting. For a few rounds at the Syracuse War Memorial Auditorium, he moved in and traded punches with Challenger Carmen Basilio. By the time he backed off and tried to defend himself, he was so beaten up he had nothing left. In the ninth round Basilio pounded him senseless. While Saxton was being lugged to his corner, the onetime Canastota (N.Y.) onion farmer knelt in mid-ring to give a prayer of thanks for the title...
...next general election, German voters had been presented with what seemed to them clear evidence that Konrad Adenauer's credit in Washington was decreasing. ("Adenauer," predicted the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, "will be overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee.") Simultaneously, the Socialist argument that it was senseless for West Germany to introduce conscription at a time when other nations were reducing conventional forces took on new plausibility. Last week both of West Germany's leading polls showed substantial Socialist gains amongst the voters, making them for the first time about equally as strong as Adenauer...
Cyprus. State proclaimed its concern over "violence . . . a blind and senseless course in the settlement of international relations" as a helpful backdrop for Britain's new plan to straighten out the Cyprus problem...