Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UGLINESS of The Exorcist (directed by William Friedkin) is calculated for cheap thrills. It pounds at you mechanically with the punch of a tank. It soaks below the conscious level into the bloodstream and anesthetizes feeling. Senseless in its conception, emptied of anything to care about, the movie does its dirty work on the stomach and the nerves. And, down deeper, it can cast your world into a limbo of doubt...
...obvious that the Arabs have come of age because they no longer rely on verbal barrage and senseless acts of terrorism to advance their interests...
This is particularly true of the illfamed Saturday Night Specials, those $25-and-under, small-caliber imported handguns that are flooding our cities at a rate of 2,000,000 a year. They are being used increasingly in muggings, holdups and the random, senseless murders of strangers, which are also on the rise. The 1968 Federal Gun Control Act banned the import of many of these so-called "junk guns." But under pressure from various gun lobbyists, the landing of gun parts was not stopped. This led naturally to the profitable gun-assembly business...
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...Another horrendous, senseless war! What have the Arabs to gain? Unfortunately they have no national pride and can only rally with a war cry against Israel...