Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recalling the 100,000 slave, laborers in at least 100 concentration camps operated by the Krupps during the Second World War. As testimony at the Nuremberg Trials showed: Alfried Krupp's exploitation of slave labor was worse than any other industrialist's. Nowhere else was there such sadism, such senseless barbarity, such shocking treatment of people as dehumanized material. His power was absolute and therefore absolutely corrupting...
...there is no evidence that the State Department even took up the matter with Greek officials. Since U.S. funds and hardware support the Greek junta, an American warning about such action surely would have carried weight and may have prevented a senseless action that may still bring all out war in the Mediterranean...
...Senseless Race. The Yalta meetings broke up without a decision. The next day, while flying back to Moscow, Kissinger and Gromyko searched for a way out of the impasse. The two devised a proposal that was soon accepted by Nixon and Brezhnev; their only other choice would have been to admit their failure to the world...
...world are accustomed to a feeling of protection--economic security which implies physical security. The criminal threat to that security arose most furiously at a time when another important psychic power source--heat and light--was also being severed. Shivering and afraid, then, and stunned by the apparently senseless flurry of violent crimes blowing in with the winter, Harvard began to take action...
...group of strangers the previous night-people who had been willing to pay $100. Mrs. Carr later said that she saw one of the visitors-a white woman who was wearing a pistol belt. The stranger patted her gun and smiled at Mrs. Carr. It was a cocky and senseless gesture of power...